greycat 1144763090 learn ctime is NOT creation time! It's (metadata) change time. It's updated whenever a file's ownership, permissions, etc. change. greycat 1173983770 forget greycat 1173983805 learn ctime is NOT creation time! It's (metadata) change time. It's updated whenever a file's ownership, permissions, etc. change. Unix does not store creation time of a file ANYWHERE, at all. There is no way you can possibly know when a file was created, unless you're on a system with nonstandard file system extensions. greycat 1415051709 forget greycat 1415051711 learn ctime stands for "change time", not "creation time". Most file systems do NOT store a file's creation time at all. On those that do, you need nonstandard tools to retrieve it. Try "--newerBB" in GNU find for example. greycat 1415051754 forget greycat 1415051759 learn ctime stands for "change time", not "creation time". Most file systems do NOT store a file's creation time at all. On those that do, you need nonstandard tools to retrieve it. Try "-newerBB" in GNU find for example.