https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397398
Bug ID: 397398
Summary: Misleading ‘Created’ date in file properties
Product: frameworks-kio
Version: 5.48.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Properties dialog
Assignee: fa...@kde.org
Reporter: k...@huftis.org
CC: kdelibs-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 114415
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Screenshot showing properties window launched from Krusader
The KIO ‘Properties’ window for a file shows three dates:
Created:
Modified:
Accessed:
However, the ‘Created’ date seems to be the ‘ctime’, which is *not* the
creation time for the file. I have a bunch of files with apparently have been
‘modified’ *before* their ‘Created’ date, which is chronologically impossible.
(See screenshot.)
Note 1: What is shown in the ‘Properties’ window seems to depend on how it’s
accessed. Accessing it via Dolphin doesn’t show the ‘Created’ field, but
accessing it via Krusader does. (In both cases the window comes from KIO, not
the host application.)
Note 2: Unix/Linux filesystems doesn’t store the creation time in a *standard*
field:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7562/what-file-systems-on-linux-store-the-creation-time
Note 3: Explanation of ctime, atime and mtime
https://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/04/atime-ctime-mtime-in-unix-filesystems/
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