stats.ctime cannot be used to retrieve the creation time

[KasparEtter]

First of all: This is a really awesome tool and exactly what I was looking for! 😍

node-rename-cli/lib/replacements.js

Lines 264 to 271 in 5d75fdc

	case 'cr':
	case 'create':
	case 'cr[eate]': {
	printIfVerbose(fileObj, 'Formatting ' + fileObj.base + ' create date to: ' + format);
	let stats = fs.statSync(fileObj.dir + '/' + fileObj.base);
	if (stats.ctime) returnText = dateFormat(stats.ctime, format);
	break;
	}

ctime:

ctime stands for status change time. This timestamp tells you when was the last time the property and metadata of the file were changed. The metadata includes file permissions, ownership, name and location of the file.

Please use stats.birthtime for this (see this documentation for platform availability).

In other words, with {{date|create}} you get when the file content or its name was last changed. Until this is fixed, I will just use {{date|modify}} instead, which at least ignores file renames.

[jhotmann]

Glad you like the tool! I am going to make this change. If you run into things like this continue to submit issues but in the meantime you can also override the default behavior with the replacements.js file that is installed to ~/.rename/replacements.js or %UserProfile%\.rename\.replacements.js on Windows. Just copy the entire date object and replace ctime with birthtime.

[jhotmann]

Fixed in 6.1.0

[KasparEtter]

Awesome, thanks a lot for addressing all these issues/suggestions! ❤️