Screencapture filename options for adding SQL-style date/time strings, pre-10.6?

[B S Magnet]

I gather from searching around that the answer amounts to “not possible”:

From SL onward, the default file name for screencapture is “Screen shot YYYY-MM-DD at HH:mm:ss.[format]”.
Pre-SL, the default file name was “Picture [x].[format]”, where “x” was a sequential digit.

In Tiger or Leopard, are there ways to get screencapture (whose settings are kept under com.apple.screencapture.plist) to parse SQL-style date specifiers (something like %Y%m%d at %H%s) for the name variable? Or is this not feasible?

 

[eyoungren]

I gather from searching around that the answer amounts to “not possible”:

From SL onward, the default file name for screencapture is “Screen shot YYYY-MM-DD at HH:mm:ss.[format]”.
Pre-SL, the default file name was “Picture [x].[format]”, where “x” was a sequential digit.

In Tiger or Leopard, are there ways to get screencapture (whose settings are kept under com.apple.screencapture.plist) to parse SQL-style date specifiers (something like %Y%m%d at %H%s) for the name variable? Or is this not feasible?

You could try a workaround.

I have an Automator action that renames files by appending the the date to the beginning of a filename. Set as a service I can call it via a keyboard.shortcut.

Maybe set something similar up to use a folder action? What you could do is attach that to the folder that your screenshots go to. Whenever a new one comes in it gets renamed with the time and date.

Between Automator and Applescript that should be possible to put together.