Timeline for How do I set the creation time of a file?
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| Aug 21, 2013 at 2:13 | comment | added | TachyonVortex |
-1 touch will only set the creation date of a file if it creates the file, or if the new date is earlier than the file's creation date. (It's impossible to have a file whose modification date is earlier than its creation date.) So this solution does not work if the new date is later than the file's creation date. The SetFile solution will always work.
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| Aug 2, 2012 at 13:51 | comment | added | nohillside♦ |
Nathan, did the file exist before you "touched" it? touch doesn't change creation dates unless it creates the file itself.
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| Jul 1, 2011 at 19:59 | comment | added | dkagedal | I should of course have tested this first :-) Thanks | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 19:58 | vote | accept | dkagedal | ||
| Jul 1, 2011 at 16:38 | history | answered | Nathan Greenstein | CC BY-SA 3.0 |