Re: Creation date of Feb 14th 1946 - Why?
Re: Creation date of Feb 14th 1946 - Why?
- Subject: Re: Creation date of Feb 14th 1946 - Why?
- From: Mark Woollard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:26:15 +0000
It was the day ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic computer was revealed to the world. I guess you can't have a digital file created before that ;-)
Mark
On 16 Nov 2009, at 17:16, Matt Gough wrote:
> Can someone let me know if there is something magical about a file having its creation date set to:
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> 1946-02-14 08:34:56 +0000
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> I am guessing it is a special flag used by Finder to let it know that a file is busy (since even after a restart a file with such a creation date is shown dimmed)
> Am I correct?
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> Are there any other magic dates that are being used?
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> FYI - I am writing a FUSE file system and need to prevent such dates ending up at the back-end.
>
> Thanks
>
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