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in thread Reading a directory and getting file dates

Ofcourse, this could open up the whole can of worms about what (if anything) a "creation timestamp" or "file creation time" means.

For the record: I'm firmly in the "it's a meaningless concept" camp. But then, I find *nix intuitive - YMMV

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