On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:42:31PM +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > File creation date is not recorded. It may be the same as the mtime or > the ctime, or it may not. This seems weird at first, but it's not just arbitrary. What is file creation time supposed to mean? If you copy a file, is the creation time the time the copy was created, or the same as the original? What if you edit the file with this process: copy to new file, modify, copy new file over old? What if you create a new project using a template file? What about files you download from somewhere else? Basically, since files are really an abstraction -- there's no physical thing created! -- the idea of "creation time" becomes surprisingly hard to define. Modification time is much more clear. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
