[ctlq]

Does anyone know how to change the creation date of a file? I know it's possible to change when it was last accessed/modified w/ touch but I can't figure out how to change when it was actually created.

[Gavin]

I think computers go out of their way to make sure you can't.
You can do it in windows with shareware that exploits bugs.

You may be able to do it with brute force:
Change the system clock to the date you want the file to be.
Copy the contents of your file into a new file, then replace the original with the new.

You can do it in one step in the terminal:

Code:
cat bob.txt >>bob2.txt ; mv -f bob2.txt bob.txt

you can even add in the date change like this:

Code:
sudo date 8506131627 ; cat bob.txt >>bob2.txt ; mv -f bob2.txt bob.txt

that should set the creation date to
June 13, 1985, 4:27 PM

see man date for the date syntax


have fun