DirDate fails if filename contains an equals sign

[badkitty]

I am running DirDate v5.7 x64 on Windows 7 Professional x64.

I run the following dirdate commands to set all dates for a file called "3=.txt"

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"C:\Program Files\DirDate\dirdate.exe" MODIFIED= -date=03.01.2013 -time=13:30:30 "C:\Temp\Downloads\Test\3=.txt"
"C:\Program Files\DirDate\dirdate.exe" LASTACCESS= -date=03.01.2013 -time=13:30:30 "C:\Temp\Downloads\Test\3=.txt"
"C:\Program Files\DirDate\dirdate.exe" CREATION= -date=03.01.2013 -time=13:30:30 "C:\Temp\Downloads\Test\3=.txt"

This is the output of the above commands:

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Invalid date/time part C:\TEMP\DO
Valid parts are T/TIME,D/DATE,HOUR,MIN/MINUTE,SEC/SECOND,MSEC/MSECOND,YEAR,MON/MONTH and DAY,ADD,SUB
Invalid date/time part C:\TEMP\DO
Valid parts are T/TIME,D/DATE,HOUR,MIN/MINUTE,SEC/SECOND,MSEC/MSECOND,YEAR,MON/MONTH and DAY,ADD,SUB
Invalid date/time part C:\TEMP\DO
Valid parts are T/TIME,D/DATE,HOUR,MIN/MINUTE,SEC/SECOND,MSEC/MSECOND,YEAR,MON/MONTH and DAY,ADD,SUB

It seems that dirdate cannot set the date and time for file/directory names that contain an equals sign.

It would be nice if this could be fixed.

Thanks!

[DataMystic Support]

Thanks - this has now been fixed in v5.8, available shortly:

* Fixed command-line filenames with embedded equals signs (=) being
interpreted as options. Unknown options are now treated as a filename
and flagged with a warning message.