
Not many Windows developers seem aware of it, but Microsoft deliberately designed Windows NT to report incorrect file creation, modification, and access times. This decision is documented in the Knowledge Base in articles Q128126 and Q158588. For most purposes, this behavior is innocuous, but as Microsoft writes in Q158588, After the automatic correction for Daylight Savings Time, monitoring programs comparing current time/date stamps to reference data that were not written using Win32 API ca...
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