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Restore dates lost copying wiki pages
# This script reads all pages in a repository and sets each file's last modification date
# based on dates found in the Journal.
require 'json'
early = 1335324580000
Dir.glob('../pages/*') do |path|
File.open(path) do |file|
page = JSON.parse file.read
epoch = page['journal'].last['date'] || early
time = Time.at(epoch/1000)
puts "#{time}\t#{path}"
File.utime time, time, path
end
end
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