date content created/modified

[Gust]

The Spotlight metadata variables include the date when the content was created/modified in the fields kMDItemContentCreationDate and kMDItemContentModificationDate

It seems to me that Spotlight enters the filesystem creation/modification date as default values in these fields. As Neolight does not return values for these variables, the fields continue to reflect the file creation/modification date rather than the content creation date.

Is it possible to extend Neolight such that values for kMDItemContentCreationDate and kMDItemContentModificationDate in the Spotlight index correspond to the data that can be obtained with File -> Properties in Neooffice?

[OPENSTEP]

On this I do not know. I believe that those keys are inserted by Spotlight directly and directly mirror the filesystem dates. If both Spotlight and a plugin claim different values for the same key I don't know who will win.

My gut feeling is that regardless of what Neo/OOo says, it's better for Spotlight to contniue to take the keys off of the filesystem as it is doing. If you do a search in the Finder or Sherlock, it's going to look off of those same filesystem based dates as well. It'd be heck confusing to have the dates be different from the standard, IMHO

ed

[Guest]

The filesystem creation and modification dates should be in the fields kMDItemFSCreationDate and kMDItemFSContentChangeDate.

Although I do not know the exact dynamics that are behind the filesystem values that end up in the kMDItemContentCreationDate and kMDItemContentModificationDate, it is my feeling that these are kind of default values enterred by Spotlight when the file record is created in the index. But I am not sure at all on this.

Anyway, given the existence of separate date fields for filesystem based values, I think the content-based date fields should reflect the values that are obtained through file->properties in neooffice. Just my two cents.