sxiang@student.math.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
> Why doesn't Linux have the "file created" timestamp???

Because Linux is an implementation of UNIX and Unix never had that.
As noted before, it DOES have:
last accessed (read,used)
last modified (file contents)
last changed (attributes etc)
timestamp. Unlike Windows, the Unix timestamp is accurate UP to the
second, althoung "ls -l" normally doesn't show them (FAT date/time
stamps only store the EVEN seconds, so the stamp is always a multiple
of 2 seconds, don't know for certain about NTFS).
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