Word2000 - File Creation dates query?

[Tony]

A user has created a file FILE_1.DOC. The file creation date is 10 Jan 2007.
at 10:00AM He last modified the file on the same date at 11:30AM. The last
access date for the file is 12 Jan 2007 at 10:00AM.

On 15 Jan 2007 at 10:00AM, the user opened the original file, changed some
of the information in the file and then used the 'Save As' command to save
the file as FILE_2.DOC.

When the user views the properties FILE_1.DOC, they now show that creation
date of FILE_1.DOC is now 15 Jan 2007, but the Modified date as 10 Jan 2007
at 11:30AM.

Obviously this can't be true! The file could not have been modified before
it was created!! No changes have been made to the system clock at all and my
only direction of thinking would be that the Word Autosave feature could
somehow overwrite the original creation date!

Has anyone else experienced this or can offer an explanation into how this
could happen!!

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Tony

A user has created a file FILE_1.DOC. The file creation date is 10 Jan 2007.
at 10:00AM He last modified the file on the same date at 11:30AM. The last
access date for the file is 12 Jan 2007 at 10:00AM.

On 15 Jan 2007 at 10:00AM, the user opened the original file, changed some
of the information in the file and then used the 'Save As' command to save
the file as FILE_2.DOC.

When the user views the properties FILE_1.DOC, they now show that creation
date of FILE_1.DOC is now 15 Jan 2007, but the Modified date as 10 Jan 2007
at 11:30AM.

Obviously this can't be true! The file could not have been modified before
it was created!! No changes have been made to the system clock at all and my
only direction of thinking would be that the Word Autosave feature could
somehow overwrite the original creation date!

AFAICT, this is standard behavior of file dates. When "saving as" a new
file, it gets the same "modified" information from the original
(somewhere in the past), but a new "created" entry.

Yes, it could have been designed differently, but it wasn't.

HTH
Robert