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PowerShell touch all files newer than

I have found the following question on ServerFault: Windows recursive touch command Which partially answers my question with this answer: Windows recursive touch command However, I would like to ...
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Sudden change of date in windows 7 (From 2013 to 2039)

I was watching a video on youtube (using Chrome, OS is windows 7) when a pop up warned me that I had to calibrate my monitor again since the calibration was too old. This sounded strange, since I had ...
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Add rows to insert dates from a “from” and “to” column

I want to breakdown an Excel sheet by having it in a specific format. Right now, the sheet is like this FROM TO TOTAL 01/27/12 01/27/12 1 03/09/12 03/09/12 1 04/11/12 ...
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Add date shortcut in Notepad++ [duplicate]

In Windows regular Notepad, clicking F5 shows the date (according to region format): 09:36 ‎29/‎04/‎2013 Is there a shortcut in Notepad++ to achieve it? Preferably with no plug-in involved, but ...
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CountIf Formula that counts cells containing any and all dates without having a date range?

I need to simplify a CountIF formula. Instead of having a date range I just need my COUNTIF to count cells cointaining dates disregarding date range period. I have tried for example simplifying it ...
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Create a folder with current year & month, windows command line? [duplicate]

How to use mkdir to create a folder with this something like --> folder1-2013-04 (but the year and month should be dynamic and generated automatically.
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Windows batch get current date not working correctly [closed]

I have a problem getting the current date. Yesterday it worked fine, but today the clock went forward 1 hour. I am getting the current date in this format: ""2--3--4.01""* by running the following ...
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Batch script or set of commands to extract the fields of date

I am trying to create a batch file to backup my data at regular intervals in Windows using a batch script. I need date parameter and the fields from the displayed format (Month, day and year). ...
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In Lotus Notes how can you change the date format?

In Lotus Notes 8.5 how can you change the date format? I don't like 27/3/2013 and would like Wednesday 3, 2013 or the like.
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Unix Date command not working for few servers

I am trying to execute date command in unix server for yesterday. The commands tried are : date --date="1 day ago" date --date="1 days ago" date --date="yesterday" date --date="-1 day" These ...
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OpenOffice Calc - incorrect converting to date format

I have problem with OpenOffice Calc...I need to work with many values of date/time in text format "D.M.YY H:MM", for ex. today 13.3.13 12:30 ... But if I try to format this strings like Date, it ...
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Formula to add X months to a date?

How can I add X months to an existing date in iWork Numbers?
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How to set mergefield to show long date format?

How can I make Word 2012 display German date format in mail merge? { DATE \a "dd.MM.yy" \ * MERGEFIELD } returns 15.02.2012 for today, 15. Februar 2013 however is what I want.
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monthly totals comparing two date columns, Excel 2010

How can I calculate a monthly total of the courses completed for the month ONLY when they were due for that same month (sometimes students are late and sometimes early)? The spreadsheet has a column ...
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What format can I use in Excel to display both date and time in system formats

I need to display both date and time in system date and time formats. I know that [$-0xf800] means the system long date format and [$-0xf400] means the system time format, but [$-0xf800][$-0xf400] ...
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EXCEL populate a list of sunday's dates and ignore the sundays in an exception list

Hi i'm working on a sheet which i have to populate with sundays dates, and make sure that dates from an exception list don't be present in my final list Goal: is to have the list of dates of only ...
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ms sql select data after specific date of the year regardless of year

I want to select a data from column 'Birthday' which format is 'yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00.000' but I need to skip year, and pull out data from range yyyy-01.01 to yyyy.05.01 ? Tryed underscores and percent ...
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My windows explorer shows future dates for date modified

My windows explorer shows dates like tomorrow, next week and even later this year when grouping my files with date modified. What is going on?
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Change date in a SQL query to reference a cell in Excel

I have the following code that returns the needed data into excel and manually changing the date will change the returned data; however, I'd like to reference a cell with a formula that will make the ...
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How can I change the default date format?

When I paste a date into Excel 2010 in the format "2012-12-07 00:00:00.000" I'd like it to be displayed by default as "2012-12-07", but it is actually displayed as "00:00.0". I know I can work ...
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How do I get the current date according to an NTP server without setting it locally?

I want to get the current date and time according to a remote NTP server, using Linux. I don't want to change the local time as a result; I just want to get the remote date, adjusted for the local ...
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How autofill all rows between two dates in excel with the second date as the incrementing limit?

That title might have made my issue sound more complex than it is... I am trying to figure out take one cell.... say A1 and put a date in it.... then move down several thousand rows and give another ...
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linux “date -s” command not working to change date on a server

date +%T --set="12:19:06" 12:19:06 date Mon Nov 26 12:37:32 SAST 2012 date 112613232012 Mon Nov 26 13:23:00 SAST 2012 date Mon Nov 26 13:42:27 SAST 2012 I have tried many different forms of this ...
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how to change the time format in Linux system

My Linux system has time format of UTC-5:0. How can i change it to UTC+5:30? Using date command i can able to change the time, but not the format
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In Excel 2010 why can't I change the date format?

The original date is in the following format: 14/Nov/201110:53:44 I need it in this form: 14.11.2011 10:53:44 When I choose Number -> Custom -> d.m.yyyy h:mm -> OK , nothing changes. ...
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How does `date` calculate time zone offset? [closed]

If I set the time zone environment variable: TZ="Foo/Bar", how does date handle different time zones and display the date accordingly?
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How can I batch shift the creation date of files on OS X 10.6.8?

Please note that I am not asking how to change the creation date of a bunch of files to a given date. I want to shift the date by a given amount of time, for example 47732400 seconds. Can I ...
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How do I search for a fixed date field in OpenOffice Writer?

Apache OpenOffice.org writer 3.4.1. I have a large file with many fixed date fields. (Menu: Insert/Fields/Date, and/or AutoText from such a field.) How do I search by field value? The Find (Find ...
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Formula to calculate the 5th [day of the week] when applicable

I've used the following formula to get the nth xday of the month: =DATE(B2,A2,1+7*n)-WEEKDAY(DATE(B2,A2,8-xday)) where year is in B2 and month (as a number from 1 to 12) is in A2, and where xday is ...
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Set Linux date with ddmmyy

I need to set the date of a Linux box with a string I get from a program. This string is formatted as ddmmyy. Is it possible to use that directly or do I need to reformat it first? Currently I have ...
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How do I write a batch script to generate folders for each month, day and year?

How do I write a batch script to generate folders for each month, day and year based on user input?
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Edit date field code on multiple Word Documents

I have multiple word documents that have a date field code displaying the current date. I need a way to modify each document so that it shows the CreateDate field instead of Date. The format for each ...
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Display date serial number using TEXT in IF

I am using an IF function to insert a string into a cell if the cell specified is #N/A, the function works if I use the following =IF(AS2="#N/A","",CONCATENATE("insert in tempTable ...
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Excel Date Formula with a condition

I have 3 fields in excel as follows: Cell A1=2012 A2=12 A3=15 which contains year, month & date value respectively. And I want to make a date string out of it. I know it's very easy to achieve ...
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How do I copy recent folder/files from a network drive using a batch file?

My question may have answered someway or other but unfortunately I did not get the exact answer that I was looking for. Here is what I'm trying to do- create a folder on pc1, c:\temp1 map a network ...
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Identify date/time format

I've been given some data to create some chart graphics and the dates are in a format I don't recognise. If I knew the format name I could easily look them up but initial search has drawn a blank. ...
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How to use the current date as an argument?

I have a batch script which extract SQL data to CSV file: "bcp Database.dbo.MyTable out C:\Reports\Output.csv -s ServerName -T -c" I need the name of the output file should contain the current date. ...
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Open Office Calc: Convert a date to timestamp

I have a column with dates in M/D/Y like this: 8/8/2007 8/9/2007 8/10/2007 8/13/2007 8/14/2007 8/15/2007 8/16/2007 I would like to convert them to a unix timestamp (in a new column). Would anyone ...
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Importing specific date format to Excel from Microsoft SQL Server

I've already asked the question at: StackOverFlow and got sent to this place here. I'm importing dates from a German SQL Server table into a German Excel file via the built-in Excel connection tool. ...
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Picasa has re-edited all my photos randomly

I use Picasa to manage my photos. I recently switched from a Windows machine to a Mac, so I used an external hard drive to transfer my photos from the old computer to the new. Everything was fine at ...
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Proper date -d “next monday”

I'm trying to write a quick script that figures out the date of the next Monday that isn't today. Although the date command accepts this expression, it appears to interpret it as equivalent to "this ...
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Put a text in front of every new line that a program prints to stdout

So I want to do some logging and therefor, want to put a date in front of a bash script's output. The problem is that is has multiple lines of output. I am able to only put the date before the whole ...
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Excel conditional formatting, greater than a year

I am working on a spreadsheet that logs the dates parts were sent out and would like to apply conditional formatting to the dates. I would like if over 3 years ago, if over 2 years ago, if over 1, ...
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How to insert the date into vim

In vim you can execute comands with "!". You can combine that with "r" to insert the output into your current buffer. :r!date Fri Jul 20 09:39:26 SAST 2012 will insert the date into a file. ...
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ms excel 2010 in windows xp - when open workbook the data is formatted differently than when i saved it

I haven't been able to find an answer to this. I have multiple files that I use regularly in excel that now have cell formats of "date". Every single cell in the entire workbook (all sheets) is ...
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Copying From Windows to NFS: Can The Timestamps Be Preserved?

We have a Linux server that has NFS shares. Some Windows hosts (XP & 7) connect to it via Services for UNIX. I've been told the behavior is different from XP to 7 in terms of file creation dates ...
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How can I convert LDAP Timestamps in Libra Office to a date time format

If I query the directory, I get the following results. ldapsearch2.4 -x -b "dc=localhost,dc=com" "cn=auser" "+" | grep stamp createTimestamp: 20100407122221Z modifyTimestamp: 20100407122221Z ...
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A download manager for Linux which saves downloaded files in directories by date like 2012_06_29

I've been using Download Master on Windows for years and what I liked most about it is that this program can automatically put downloaded files into directories by download date: /Downloads | ...
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unable to use datediff function in apache openoffice calc

I am unable to get a result by using this command =DATEDIFF('dd', '2007-08-01', '2007-09-01') in apache openoffice calc. Even using two columns of dates and using the formula ...
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In zsh the date format for names isn't displayed properly

I don't know what's wrong or if I'm stupid or something, but I just can't get to display the date with words :( I've been trying this for hours now.. It should display Mon, but it displays a "M" ...

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