From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@...>
Date: 2008-01-06T03:10:00+09:00
Subject: Re: A file's creation date

Peter L Versteegen <pversteegen@gcnetmail.net> writes:
> Thanks for your comments. I do download with into a time stamped  
> directory using QPICT.  This does a great job.
> I'm more careful now to make sure that my cameras are set to the  
> correct date and time, but this is all about past pictures, and the  
> date and time that you find in Finder's Get Info.  I would like to  
> retrieve the date and time that the file was created and eventually  
> insert them in the EXIF field.  I have several hundred photos whose  
> EXIF fields are mangled!


IIRC, on HFS, the creation time is kept.   There's a command
/Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo or something like that that should let
you get it in the shell, or perhaps from AppleScript, but I don't it.

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