<!-- Date: 2003-12-09 22:23 -->

#!/usr/bin/env python 
"""
This handy little script fixes file dates. It opens up the file 
and if there is a line that looks like this: 

It will set the mtime of the file to the date listed there. It’s 
very nice for pyblosxom which bases ordering off the mtime of the 
file. It’s also great for when CVS decides to randomly change 
your file dates. 

By Patrick Wagstrom 

Released under terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 

$Revision: 1.1 $ 
$Id: fixfiletime.txt,v 1.1 2003/12/10 04:21:43 patrick Exp $ 
""" 
import os, time, sys 

if len(sys.argv) < 1: 
    print "Usage: fixfiletime.py filename" 
    sys.exit(1) 

filename = sys.argv[1] 
try: 
    filestats = os.stat(filename) 
except: 
    print "File not found. Quitting." 
    sys.exit(1) 

print "Processing File: ", filename 
try: 
    filebody = open(filename) 
except: 
    print "Cannot open file %s - exiting" % (filename) 
    sys.exit(1) 

body = [x.strip() for x in filebody.readlines() if x.lower().startswith("<!– date:")] 
filebody.close() 
if len(body) > 1: 
    print "I’m confused, multiple line matches!" 
    print body 
    sys.exit(1) 
if len(body) == 0: 
    print "No match" 
    sys.exit(1) 

newdate = body[0].split() 
timetuple = time.strptime(newdate[2]+" "+newdate[3],"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") 
newmtime = time.mktime(timetuple) 

filestats = os.stat(filename) 
atime, mtime = filestats[7:9] 
print "Old mtime: ", time.asctime(time.localtime(mtime)) 
print "New mtime: ", time.asctime(time.localtime(newmtime)) 
try: 
    os.utime(filename, (atime, newmtime)) 
except Exception, e: 
    print "Failed to set the new time.", e 
    print "Quitting." 
sys.exit(1)