File Creation Dates

[Rusty]

I am desperate for help in this regard. I go to court next week and need to
prove that a file was created on a certain date and not earlier. The date on
both the General and Statistics tabs show a creation date of 6 October 2005.
My opposition are saying that the file was in fact created earlier and this
date reflects the last saved date. I know that the date on the General tab
seems to change with each save of the file, but my understanding is that the
date on the Statistics tab remains as the date of first creation.

I know that software is available to change the date, however, in this
instance there would be no benefit in the opposition changing the date to the
future, they need a date in 2004 for their case.

Can anyone give me some authoritive info to support the statistics date as
been original.

Thanks

Rusty

 

[Bob I]

That would normally only change the "modified" date not the "created"
date. But you would need some "expert" to testify, and conversely the
opposition can't prove that it wasn't created on the "created" date.

 

[Gary Smith]

There is no way to prove that. Any of the three dates associated by a
file can be changed to any date whatever by anyone who has access to it.
The creation date does not change when the file is saved, but there's no
way to prove that some other process hasn't changed it.

I am desperate for help in this regard. I go to court next week and need to
prove that a file was created on a certain date and not earlier. The date on
both the General and Statistics tabs show a creation date of 6 October 2005.
My opposition are saying that the file was in fact created earlier and this
date reflects the last saved date. I know that the date on the General tab
seems to change with each save of the file, but my understanding is that the
date on the Statistics tab remains as the date of first creation.