"Mayayana" wrote

| Actually it turns out there is no creation time.

The plot thickens.

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https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...n-date-of-file

The POSIX standard only defines three distinct timestamps to be stored for
each file: the time of last data access, the time of last data modification,
and the time the file status last changed.

That said, modern Linux filesystems, such as ext4, Btrfs and JFS, do store
the file creation time (aka birth time), but use different names for the
field in question (crtime in ext4, otime in Btrfs and JFS). However,
currently Linux does not provide a kernel API for accessing the file
creation times, even on filesystems supporting them.
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So there's more recently been created a creation time,
or birth time (crtime), which is apparently not standardized
at this point in the sense that there's no API access.
But it is stored, and Macs apparently deal with it, so that
any notably enthusiastic software on a Mac might dig it
up.
So maybe that accounts for the disagreements. Though
I never did find whether Unix/Mac birth time is exactly the
same as Windows creation time.