From 360117deb10dd66b3a18ed548155ddc1b330d82d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=89tienne=20Reuh=20Fildadut?= <fildadut@reuh.eu>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 21:42:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: set mtime and atime for generated files

---
 README.md           | 12 +++++++++---
 config.default.toml |  2 +-
 main.py             |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4db6727..33ad3ab 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
-# Feather: local file-based RSS reader
+# Feather: file-based RSS reader
 
 ## Usage
 
 ### Reading a feed
 
+Directories, opening an item, sorting/searching by date/title (a.k.a. using a file manager)
+
 ### Marking items as read
 
+Delete
+
+See read items in the trash can
+
 ### Updating with the server
 
 Call `feather sync` to synchronize all local data with the server (read items, new items from the server, etc.).
@@ -45,11 +51,11 @@ After changing the configuration, you can call `feather regenerate` to regenerat
     - [ ] inotify might still be nice
 - [x] Make HTML filename configurable
 - [x] Make HTML template configurable
-- [ ] Nested categories
+- [ ] Nested categories: ttrss-python?
 - [ ] Share the fun somewhere
 - [x] Edge cases: mark as read during sync (if marked as read on server or not)
 - [x] Proper filename escaping
 - [x] Command to force regenerate all HTML files (incl. recompute datetimes & paths)
 - [x] Handle item updates
 - [ ] Actually think about the issues created by the duplicate warning
-- [ ] Set generated files creation/modification date instead of putting date in filename
+- [x] Set generated files creation/modification date instead of putting date in filename
diff --git a/config.default.toml b/config.default.toml
index 07d22c4..68667f8 100644
--- a/config.default.toml
+++ b/config.default.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ template = '''
 '''
 # Filename template for generated HTML files.
 # Can be set through the environment variable HTML_FILENAME_TEMPLATE.
-filename_template = "{{ published_formatted }}\t[{{ origin_title }}]\t{{ title }}.html"
+filename_template = "[{{ origin_title }}]\t{{ title }} ({{ published_formatted }}).html"
 # Maximum allowed filename length (in bytes assuming UTF-8 encoding) before truncating. Depending on your filesystem filename's limits it may be possible to increase the value, ask Wikipedia for details.
 # Can be set through the environment variable HTML_MAX_FILENAME_LENGTH.
 max_filename_length = 250
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 82c6fc6..8340604 100755
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -235,6 +235,8 @@ def generate_html_for_item(config, item_json, regenerate=False):
     else:
         with html_path.open("w") as f:
             f.write(config.item_template.render(item_json))
+        # set accessed date to update time, modified to publication time
+        os.utime(html_path, (max(item_json["updated"], item_json["updated"]), item_json["published"]))
 
 def remove_html_for_item(config, item_json, ignore_deleted=False):
     # Delete a HTML file for a JSON object