Mar 30, 2021 But we also assumed Apple would follow the same numbering system that it did with Mac OS X (10.0 through 10.11) and macOS (10.12 through 10.15), meaning this year’s release would be macOS 11.1. Mac OS, operating system (OS) developed by the American computer company Apple Inc. The OS was introduced in 1984 to run the company’s Macintosh line of personal computers (PCs). The Macintosh heralded the era of graphical user interface (GUI) systems, and it inspired Microsoft Corporation to develop its own GUI, the Windows OS. This works: date -j -vJulm -v20d -v1999y '+%A' According to the OSX date manual page::-v Adjust (i.e., take the current date and display the result of the adjustment; not actually set the date) the second, minute, hour, month day, week day, month or year according to val.

Date Format Key:

  • YYYY — The year (the first two digits/century can be omitted).
  • MM — The month of the year, from 1 to 12.
  • DD — The day of the month, from 1 to 31.
  • hh — The hour of the day, from 0 to 23.
  • mm — The minute of the hour, from 0 to 59.
First date/can

How to change the “date modified” attribute of a file in Mac OS High Sierra and newer?

Unfortunately, new versions of Mac OS have different version of `touch` command, try these steps:

1. Open up the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) or if you prefer use iTerm.
2. Type this into Terminal (without hitting enter/return) replacing YYYYMMDDhhmm with the desired date information:

First Date/can't Relate Mac Os X

3. Open a Finder window and locate the file you wish to modify and drag and drop it into the Terminal window. Here’s an example of what should be typed into the Terminal at this point:

200801120000 in the example above represent “January 12, 2008 12:00 AM” or my 21st birthday. Make sure to change 200801120000 to the date you want and to replace /Volumes/Mac HD/Pictures/somefile.jpg with the proper path to the file you wish to alter the date for.

4. If all is in order press the return key.

How to change the “date modified” attribute recursively?

How to change creation date too?

Just remove m argument:

First Date/can't Relate Mac Os 11

Alternatively, you can install xcode command line tools, and follow all steps:

Then you can use it’s command to change creation date, date syntax is MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS (where HH is hours in 24h format):

Up To Date Mac Os

How to change the “date modified” attribute of a file in Mac OS El Capitan and older?

1. Open up the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) or if you prefer use iTerm.
2. Type this into Terminal (without hitting enter/return) replacing YYYYMMDDhhmm with the desired date information:

3. Open a Finder window and locate the file you wish to modify and drag and drop it into the Terminal window. Here’s an example of what should be typed into the Terminal at this point:

200801120000 in the example above represent “January 12, 2008 12:00 AM” or my 21st birthday. Make sure to change 200801120000 to the date you want and to replace /Volumes/Mac HD/Pictures/somefile.jpg with the proper path to the file you wish to alter the date for.

4. If all is in order press the return key.

How to change the “date modified” attribute recursively?

How to change creation date too?

Just remove m argument:

What’s about Linux?

It’s the same but with additional space:

and recursive one: