From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-07-16T21:49:17+09:00
Subject: Re: stamping my own timestamp

2007/7/16, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com>:
> Is there a way to "touch" a file with a time stamp of my own choosing,
> in other words, not the "now" time? I've got a bunch of files that have
> been inadvertently "touched" time-wise, and I need them to have truer
> time stamps, from a month or so ago.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/FileUtils.html#M004385

e.g. FileUtils.touch("foo", :mtime => Time.now)

robert