14 Jul
2015
14 Jul
'15
12:11 p.m.
I've got a scripting task that needs me to work off the creation time of a file.
I've been caught out before by 'ctime' being change time, rather than 'create time'.
So I thought I was just stuck - however, I've noticed that the Windows 'file creation time' attribute .... actually looks correct. Which has me confused, because I can't see this value from 'Unix side' seemingly at all. I can't tell how Windows knows what the right value is.
Is anyone able to enlighten me? Where's creation time stored, and is there a way to access it from Unix?