v1.1.3 - Any reason for switching from setting both creation/modified dates to same (from both set to modified to now both set to created)

[stereomatch]

I was wondering why the exported files have creation and modified times set to the same

In version 1.1.3 - the change is:

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from:
err = updateTimes(notePath, note.UpdatedAt)
err := os.Chtimes(path, updatedAt, updatedAt)

to:
err = updateTimes(notePath, note.CreatedAt)
err := os.Chtimes(path, createdAt, createdAt)

That is, both creation and modified times are being set to the same thing

Was there an issue with setting creation to the creation time and modified to the modified time?

Was there a problem with that - that both creation/modified times were chosen to be set to the same thing?

Thanks.

[danielnetop]

This was to have the right created time of the file, for example when creating a note two years ago if I would set both atime and mtime from os.Chtimes this would lead into having the creation time at the wrong time, to avoid that instead of using created and updated I decided to just used the createdAt times, I thought it would fit better when converting from json into fs

[stereomatch]

Thanks.

It seems also that os.Chtimes does not affect the creation time

But os.Chtimes only affects the atime and mtime i.e. the access time and the modification time - none of which will change the creation time for the file

https://www.includehelp.com/golang/os-chtimes-function-with-examples.aspx

So what you are doing is probably correct - i.e. setting atime and mtime to either both creation time or both modification time

Question is - in golang - is there a way to set the creation date of a file?

This suggests it is not too easy to do that in golang

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41263783/how-can-i-change-a-files-creation-date-in-go

In fact the unix/linux utime() also only is able to set the atime and mtime:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/utimes.2.html

And unix too may only have added creation time much later

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/unix-btime-specification-creation-date-available.80348/
Unix btime specification (creation date) available?

That is, the creation time or "birth time" (btime) evidently is not settable

Question is - in golang - is there a way to set the creation date of a file?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41263783/how-can-i-change-a-files-creation-date-in-go
How can I change a file's creation date in Go?

It seems may not be a way

This shows which unix variants have the "btime" or birth time or creation time available