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mushroomcounter

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Using short date format when renaming files
« on: October 18, 2011, 04:52:38 am »
Hi,

I'm currently using [ymd] when renaming downloaded podcasts but instead of getting (say) 2011-10-17, would like to get 111017 or 20111017 or something shorter than the 10 character "2011-10-17".

Is this possible?

Many thanks for any help.
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MrC

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Re: Using short date format when renaming files
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2011, 12:12:33 pm »
Use the expression:

   formatdate([date imported,0],yyMMdd)

as your Filename rule.

See also:

MC Expression Language reference
File Properties (tags)
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Re: Using short date format when renaming files
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2011, 01:13:11 am »
Quote from: MrC on October 18, 2011, 12:12:33 pm
Use the expression:

   formatdate([date imported,0],yyMMdd)

as your Filename rule.

See also:

MC Expression Language reference
File Properties (tags)
Many thanks - this is great.
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