Re: Need way to set the Creation date of a file via OSX
Re: Need way to set the Creation date of a file via OSX
- Subject: Re: Need way to set the Creation date of a file via OSX
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:57:42 -0500
- Thread-topic: Need way to set the Creation date of a file via OSX
On 5/17/05 21:28, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Well, even the original UNIX filesystem had something called the "creation
> time" (ctime), stored separately from both mtime and atime, which some
> versions of touch(1) will set (though not the version that ships with Tiger,
> apparently). It's just that it's not really a creation time, but a
> metadata-modification time, so anything that touches the metadata (changing
> the permissions, for instance) updates the ctime.
>
> Does HFS+ have a real creation time apart from the ctime?
Yeah...you can modify things via touch all you want but the HFS creation
date won't change
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