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: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:07:50 -0400
On 5/17/05, John C. Welch <email@hidden> wrote:
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
touch doesn't change the ctime either, unless you're using a version
that supports that as a special option and supply said option.
chmod and chown, however, do. ctime is basically the mtime for
the inode.
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