Best way to check if a script is ran today? Topic is solved

[william_ahk]

I want a script to run only once per day. Right now I'm checking it by saving today's date into a text file. But I wonder if there's any low-level way, like is there a record in the system logging the last accessed date of a file or something like that?

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WasIRan() {
	static save_filepath := A_ScriptDir "\" A_ScriptName ".last_run"
	FileRead last_run, % save_filepath
	FormatTime this_run, , yyyyMMdd
	if (last_run != this_run) {
		FileDelete % save_filepath
		FileAppend % this_run, % save_filepath
		return true
	}
}

[boiler]

Use FileSetTime and FileGetTime.

[AHKStudent]

Use FileSetTime and FileGetTime.

was looking for this too, thank you

[william_ahk]

@boiler Thanks! Haven't thought of this way.