Hi, I'm currently migrating from another note taking tool (Zim) which does not use the same formatting language, so I needed to mass modify my files to convert them to Markdown format using sed (can share the commands if anyone is interested).
While doing so, I've noticed that all my files would appear in the Chronicle view from today's date. Obviously, that's because my sed commands modified all the files. I went on and restored the modify time from a backup of the original files using find . -name "*.txt" -exec bash -c 'touch -t $(date -d @$(stat --format '%Y' "../Notes.bak/{}") +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S) "{}"' \; -ls, but the Chronicle view would still show all notes as made today. Looking at the source, I then figured that view is using the files creation time (stat's birth time), and my sed commands using inline mode created new files.
But the notion of file creation date on Linux is file system dependent, and there's no easy way to alter it.
With the change in this PRs, the Chronicle view uses the updated_at file property (stat's modify time), and notes appear when they were last modified.
If the original behavior is intended by some people, maybe it would make sense to make it an option.
PS: sorry about the trailing spaces removal changes that pollute the diff, I can revert those if desired.
danloh
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10 months ago
Hi, I'm currently migrating from another note taking tool (Zim) which does not use the same formatting language, so I needed to mass modify my files to convert them to Markdown format using
sed(can share the commands if anyone is interested).While doing so, I've noticed that all my files would appear in the Chronicle view from today's date. Obviously, that's because my
sedcommands modified all the files. I went on and restored the modify time from a backup of the original files usingfind . -name "*.txt" -exec bash -c 'touch -t $(date -d @$(stat --format '%Y' "../Notes.bak/{}") +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S) "{}"' \; -ls, but the Chronicle view would still show all notes as made today. Looking at the source, I then figured that view is using the files creation time (stat'sbirthtime), and mysedcommands using inline mode created new files. But the notion of file creation date on Linux is file system dependent, and there's no easy way to alter it.With the change in this PRs, the Chronicle view uses the
updated_atfile property (stat'smodifytime), and notes appear when they were last modified.If the original behavior is intended by some people, maybe it would make sense to make it an option.
PS: sorry about the trailing spaces removal changes that pollute the diff, I can revert those if desired.