Use one of these formats for the WinMerge command: Most of these parameters are intended for using WinMerge as an external compare application or starting a compare operation from a batch file.

UUU Three-digit offset indicating the number of minutes that the originating time zone deviates from UTC.The WinMerge command line accepts several parameters in addition to the paths to compare. S Plus sign (+) or minus sign (-) to indicate a positive or negative offset from Coordinated Universal Times (UTC). Xxxxxx Six-digit number of microseconds in the second (000000 through 999999) SS Two-digit number of seconds in the minute (00 through 59). MM Two-digit minute in the hour (00 through 59). HH Two-digit hour of the day using the 24-hour clock (00 through 23). Yyyy Four-digit year (0000 through 9999).ĭd Two-digit day of the month (01 through 31). The creationdate (such as 20150329221650.080654+060) is a timestamp, with the following format: (yes you have to use a double backslash in the file path) (The superuser answer uses 'creationdate' which is not the date you use to check for changes or most recent file.)Ĭ: emp> wmic datafile where name='x:\foo\bar\readme.txt' get lastmodified | findstr /brc: NOTE YOU MUST USE 'lastmodified' in the command instead of 'creationdate' When you follow these instructions you will get the full file time and see that they are NOT equal (even though they are equal with SECONDS, but not fractions of) Sorry I don't have more time at the moment.įollow the first answer to get full time of a file: I will also show you how to detect the full file time (milliseconds and nanoseconds) instead of just using the file properties.ĭon't close the issue yet. I will argue whether it should or should not be doing so in these situations and also the presentation of that fact to the use. Winmerge is correctly (but confusingly) detecting the difference. The two files above APPEAR the same time, but by copying from one to another (different) file system a TINY AMOUNT of incremental time is now different.

However the different underlying systems support different minimum time increments. IN SHORT: Windows regular GUI and command line windows and programs only show times down to the minute or second. I will get some more information here and also suggest a fix to the problem (which is partially caused by confusion). I ran across this same issue while working with a combination of WinMerge and Cryptomator (which likewise creates an encrypted network drive.) Cryptomator uses Dokany to create the file system.

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