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I can tell that you are a technical person-user. In all fairness the person(s) who...
To me this is one of those questions where the right answer depends on how you look at it. It's almost like those optical illusion pictures. Are the stairs going up or down? Is this a drawing of a vase or two faces staring at each other?
What is create time? Is it when the 'file contents' was created or when the file (at the OS level) was created? Do you consider a file to be contents-data or a disk primitive enbreasty?
So what is create time for a file? Looking at this from the low-level view of an OS filesystem I would say the correct answer is the time-date when the file and inode-mft-directory entry was created. But from a data-content point of view its when the content was created. If the file is a press-release document from Jan-03 then copying this PR shouldn't make this a new documented dated June-05. And what if I make a link to this document... what date should the link have?
Or that OEMs have some other reason for providing only MS operating systems. To say that the implication must be they are still including covert agreements is begging the...
Strangely when I copy a file in Windows from either the CLI or Explorer I end up with a interesting conundrum. The new file has a create-date of today but the properties show a last modified date of last year. So logically this is something that was modified last year but never existed until today.
IMO - Trying to make sense of this is a no-win situation.
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