Modifed/Created Date - Time Variance

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therube
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Modifed/Created Date - Time Variance

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Modifed/Created Date - Time Variance


Suggestion to allow for time variances.
An (up to) two second (or configurable), & separately a one or two hour variance allowance would allow for various Windows time differences. FAT vs NTFS & daylight savings ...


As it is now, a particular directory has 1250 groups, 2834 files when searching by Content.
If I change the search to Content and Modified Date, I'm only returned 228 groups & 469 files.


Now in reality, I probably (without looking at all the groups) should be darn near the 1250/2834 numbers. A quick look down the list shows virtually every one that is different to be 1 or 2 seconds.
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Re: Modifed/Created Date - Time Variance

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Good idea. Currently it rounds to the nearest second when comparing - the milliseconds stored by some file systems were causing nothing to match...
I'll add it to the list, and maybe it could be implemented in the scan options.
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Re: Modifed/Created Date - Time Variance

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To expand on this further, there could be an option to ignore Time altogether (IOW, just look at the date).
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