Sun 2003-06-29 23:06, Winston Smith (1:323/981) wrote to Roy J. Tellason:

 WS> UNIX files have *3* time attributes, instead of DOS's one:
 WS>      Creation (when the file was made)
 WS>      Access (when someone or something "looked" at the file,
 WS>              similar to the "archive" flag toggle)
 WS>      Modified (when the file was last changed, DOS just updates
 WS>                Creation, so every time that you edit a file it
 WS>                becomes "new" again)

The Win32 API also supports these.  Whether the underlying file system does
or not is another matter though.

BOOL GetFileTime(
    HANDLE hFile,                 // identifies the file
    LPFILETIME lpCreationTime,    // address of creation time
    LPFILETIME lpLastAccessTime,  // address of last access time
    LPFILETIME lpLastWriteTime    // address of last write time
);

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