I need to know if I can trust the Modified Date attribute of a file, there is any way to make a file seem older than it truly is?
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No, you cannot trust any of the date/time stamps on a file. It is relatively straightforward to change the timestamps
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I've deliberately changed the last-modified date on files to keep certain people happy. You definately cannot trust it, at all. Jul 6, 2009 at 21:33
You can't trust it - there are tools (such as 'touch') which allow you to set such file metadata.
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touch(1) being a standard command in all Unix/Linux/BSD distributions that I have seen. Jul 7, 2009 at 7:57