artem78 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

utime function can change only access and modification date of file. How can I change create date in Windows?

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Re: Change create file date
by haukex (Archbishop) on May 06, 2016 at 13:08 UTC

    Hi artem78,

    A quick search on CPAN reveals that Win32API::File::Time may be able to help you. From its synopsis:

    use Win32API::File::Time qw{:win};
($atime, $mtime, $ctime) = GetFileTime ($filename);
SetFileTime ($filename, $atime, $mtime, $ctime);

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    Hope this helps,
    -- Hauke D

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Re: Change create file date
by stevieb (Canon) on May 06, 2016 at 12:54 UTC

    I'm pretty sure you'll have to re-create the file. Here's one way:

    use warnings;
use strict;

use File::Copy;

copy 'file.txt', 'file2.txt' or die $!;
rename 'file2.txt', 'file.txt' or die $!;

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