Change file timestamp on Windows

Run Set-ItemProperty with PowerShell.

Change last modified datetime

> Set-ItemProperty "<PATH TO FILE>" -Name LastWriteTime -Value "<DATETIME STRING>"

Change creation datetime

> Set-ItemProperty "<PATH TO FILE>" -Name CreationTime -Value "<DATETIME STRING>"

It seems to be good that the DATETIME STRING format specified for -Value is a standard date and time string that can be parsed with .NET, such as "2018/06/01 12:27:59".

Display the character code of the character at the cursor position on Emacs

C-x = (M-x what-cursor-position)

The code point in Unicode of the character at the cursor position is displayed in the minibuffer.
For example, if you place the cursor on the letter "あ" in the file of Shift_JIS and press 'C-x =', the following is displayed in the minibuffer.

Char: あ (12354, #o30102, #x3042, file ...) point=1 of 2 (0%) column=0

`12354, #o30102, #x3042` are decimal, octal, hexadecimal notation of the code point in Unicode of "あ".

C-u C-x = (M-x describe-char)

Display detailed information of the character at the cursor position in the split window.
For example, place the cursor on the letter "あ" in the file of Shift_JIS and press 'C-u C-x =', then the following is displayed in the split window.

             position: 1 of 2 (0%), column: 0
            character: あ (displayed as あ) (codepoint 12354, #o30102, #x3042)
    preferred charset: japanese-jisx0208 (JISX0208.1983/1990 Japanese Kanji: ISO-IR-87)
code point in charset: 0x2422
               script: kana
               syntax: w  which means: word
             category: .:Base, H:2-byte Hiragana, L:Left-to-right (strong), c:Chinese, h:Korean, j:
Japanese, |:line breakable
             to input: type "C-x 8 RET 3042" or "C-x 8 RET HIRAGANA LETTER A"
          buffer code: #xE3 #x81 #x82
            file code: #x82 #xA0 (encoded by coding system japanese-shift-jis-dos)
              display: terminal code #xE3 #x81 #x82

`code point in charset: 0x2422` represents the code point of "あ" in character set JIS X 0208,
`buffer code: #xE3 #x81 #x82` represents the encoding in the buffer (UTF-8),
`file code: #x82 #xA0` represents the encoding in the file (Shift_JIS).

Installing Ruby-2.5.0 on CentOS6

Attempting to install Ruby-2.5.0 from the source on CentOS6 causes an error in `make` and it can not be installed.
It is an error because gcc on CentOS6 is old.

$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/ruby-2.5.0 --disable-install-doc
$ make
...(略)
prelude.c: In function ‘prelude_eval’:
prelude.c:204: error: #pragma GCC diagnostic not allowed inside functions
prelude.c:205: error: #pragma GCC diagnostic not allowed inside functions
prelude.c:221: error: #pragma GCC diagnostic not allowed inside functions
トップレベル:
cc1: 警告: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-self-assign"
cc1: 警告: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-constant-logical-operand"
cc1: 警告: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-parentheses-equality"
cc1: 警告: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-tautological-compare"
make: *** [prelude.o] エラー 1

Bug #14234: Failed to build on CentOS 6.9 - Ruby trunk - Ruby Issue Tracking System

It will be fixed on the next release (Ruby-2.5.1), but you can install Ruby-2.5.0 using scl's devtoolset for the time being.

Installing scl devtoolset on CentOS6

Create under /etc/profile.d with the following content(example for devtoolset-4 collection)and enable scl's devtoolset for users after reboot. So you can install Passenger by `passenger-install-apache2-module` or install gems which need native build with Capistrano.

$ cat /etc/profile.d/enabledevtoolset-4.sh
#!/bin/bash
source scl_source enable devtoolset-4