Do ever come across a file on your hard disk that was created on January 1, 1904?
Or a file that was modified in the year 2016?
Or a file that whose modification date pre-dates its creation date?
If so, and if it bothers you (or your backup software) this script will fix things up.
It's a Frontier desktop script, so when you double-click on it in the Finder it searchs all the files and folders in the folder it was launched from.
As it scans it checks both the modification and creation dates for all files and folders and stops when it finds a date that:
1. Is earlier than January 24, 1984 -- the shipdate of the Macintosh. It's hard to imagine that you have any files older than that! You may want to modify the script to put a later date in here; a likely candidate is the date you got your Macintosh.
2. Is later than the time the script started running. Time travel isn't possible (yet! -- it may of course be possible when Apple ships the Knowledge Navigator™).
3. As an additional reality check, it makes sure that the creation date is earlier than the modification date.
Before it fixes anything, it confirms with you by displaying a three-way dialog box. Click on Yes to fix the file, No to skip it, and Cancel to stop the traversal. If you hold down the option key and click on Yes it will continue the scan with stopping for confirmations.
Hint: check out the creation date on this readme file. It's bogus!
