Godfrey DiGiorgi mused: > > However, when you're looking at a list view and want to see Created and > Modified dates, It's exactly the opposite way around from what you > state. The Finder calls the UNIX routines which do not handle the lack > of a creation date correctly ... They just report whatever happens to > be in the appropriate number of bytes at the appropriate offset and > return that.
Which will be the Created date - it will just have a value of 0. The field is always present. Who converts dates from the DOS Epoch to the Mac epoch? The OS, or the Finder? > Aside from that, it's stupid to have a Created date be an "optional" > field. That's a poor excuse for not handling it correctly.
