Istvan, On Monday 23 January 2006 11:50, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello all:
I use simple text files for some of my notes. It would be important to keep the creation times of these files even when they are edited, copied or renamed. How can I achieve this?
So far I found when I edit a file its modification time is changed, when I copy or rename a file its creation time is changed to the time of the action (editing, copying, renaming).
It's a common misunderstanding that Unix file systems store a creation time. There is a file metadata attribute called "ctime" but it is not the time of the file's creation, but rather the time that the file's so-called "inode" information (the metadata such as it's size, modes, owners, etc.) was changed.
Thanks, IG
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