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From: mpl@sfsup.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do I set a file's creation date?
Message-ID: <1582@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 11:58:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  1 11:58:51 1987
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Summary: there is no creation date

In article <4280@caip.rutgers.edu>, brisco@caip.rutgers.edu.UUCP writes:
> 	To test a program I'm trying to build a lot of files with
> varying creation dates -- trouble is; I can't seem to find any

UNIX(R) does not keep a creation time!  Do you mean the "ctime" field of
the stat struct?  That is the modification time of the i-node (change
time).  This is updated by chmod, write, or just about anything you do.
You *can't* explicitly set this, as far as I know.