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Duke Nukem

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Registered: 2018-11-07

Posts: 85  

File Dates in Dolphin

Why is it that Dolphin does not show the true file Modified, Created and Accessed times and dates? This is a screenshot of a directory in Dolphin with files that were created and last accessed more than ten years ago except when copied from PC to PC during that time and also in the last few days (8th Nov). They mostly show a date of 29 July 2025 which is probably when I last moved them between disks or between partitions.

I'm setting up an archive script at the moment based on tar and IDK how tar will be able to distinguish that a file has been updated if these date stamps are incorrect.

I started on CP/M and seem to remember that it got dates right. Surely Linux should manage it or am I missing something?

blackhole

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Registered: 2020-03-16

Posts: 290  

Re: File Dates in Dolphin

Dolphin is only displaying file system metadata, much like you would see with:

$ ls -l

cp(1), tar(1) and rsync(1) all support arguments to preserve those attributes.