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Re: Need way to set the Creation date of a file via OSX
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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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