April 2024 Archives

A Twist of a Date


Here’s a quickie little post, just to remind everyone of the usefulness of Date::Easy.

Recently, I downloaded some pictures from Google Photos, and unzipped them into my directory of other photos.  I ended up with something that looked like this:

'2024-03-01 09.34.44.jpg'
'2024-03-01 13.18.34.jpg'
'2024-03-31 14.25.27.jpg'
'2024-03-31 14.27.09.jpg'
'2024-03-31 14.27.40.jpg'
'2024-03-31 14.28.23.jpg'
'2024-03-31 14.30.03.jpg'
'2024-03-31 14.33.32.jpg'
'2024-03-31 14.34.10.jpg'
'2024-03-31 14.36.01.jpg'
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Well! said I.  This is hardly ideal.  A foolish consistency may well be the hobgoblin of little minds, as Emerson once wrote, but there is certainly something to be said for a sensible consistency.  But ... how to achieve it?

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