touch-timestamp 0.5.0

Change file timestamps with a dialog window.

Change files timestamp with a dialog window.

GUI automatically fallback to a text interface when display is not available.

Installation

Install with a single command from PyPi.

pip install touch-timestamp
touch-timestamp --integrate-to-system  # bash completion wizzard

Alternatively, to fetch dates from JPG and HEIC, use:

sudo apt install ffmpeg  # video support
pip install touch-timestamp[heic]  # heic support

Docs

Methods to set the date

When invoked with file paths, you choose whether to set their modification times

• to the specified time
• to the date from the metadata (EXIF for JPG, HEIC, ffmpeg for videos)
• to a name auto-detected from the file name, ex: IMG_20240101_010053.jpg → 2024-01-01 01:00:53
• to a relative time
• to the specific time, set for a file, then shifts all the other relative to this

Full help

Everything can be achieved via CLI flag. See the --help.

Let's take fetching the time from the file name as an example.

Should you end up with files that keep the date in the file name, use the from-name command. In the help, you see that without setting format, it triggers an automatic detection of the time and date format.

$ touch-timestamp from-name 20240828_160619.heic
Changed 2001-01-01T12:00:00 → 2024-08-28T16:06:19: 20240828_160619.heic

Krusader user action

To change the file timestamps easily from Krusader, import this user action: touch-timestamp subcommand %aList("Selected")%