In article , Mayayana
wrote:

| And sending creation date would make
| no sense. Your copy is created when you get it,
| just as a file copied across partitions has a creation
| date corresponding to when it was copied.
|
| No it doesn't. I just copied a file to my desktop from another Mac on
| the local LAN (by drag and drop), and the copy on my desktop has the
| same creation date as the original. Which is what I'd expect any
| sensible system to do.
|

And it's a copy, not a link? Maybe that's the
Mac standard. On Windows a copy has the same
modification date but a different creation date.

To give it the same creation time is to say that
both files are the same file;

a copy of something means both are *the* *same*.

if *anything* is different, then it's not a copy.