lo monks I have this script for reading a csv like so: c:\thisdir\thatone\somedoc.xls , 102324455 (unix date stamp) and taking those values and setting the last changed date on the file in question. I am using utime and it works IF i own the file (even though I have rights to the files). I understand this is a limitation of utime so fair enuff. Is there another tool/method of setting files back to their original time? here's my script (excuse my poor perl I am no monk yet). 
use Win32::OLE;
use File::stat;

open(CSV, "c:/temp/doctime.txt"); #csv of filename , date
@title = <CSV>;            

for ($i = 0; $i < scalar(@title); $i++)        
    {
($file1[$i], $date[$i] $blank[$i]) = split(",", $title[$i]); 
    }

for ($a = 0; $a < scalar(@file1); $a++)    
{            

$access=$date[$a];
$filez = $file1[$a];

print "File name          # $filez\n";
print "Previous date      # $access\n";
utime $access, $access, $filez || die print "couldn not set utime for 
+$filez\n";

}

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This works great loyally skipping any file not owned by me (which I don't want it to). I am running it from Win2k and the files are on Unix/Samba but the same thing happens locally. Any advice ideas would be great.

In reply to setting time stamps on files by ironpaw

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