Time Stamp On Files

[Darner]

Looks like issue with the time stamp on files, in this case Affinity Designer on Mac with latest update 2.5.6 + Sequoia.
Even though the files are created a while ago, the time stamp says "created today", same time as "modified" and "last opened", when done small changes in files. The file has not been duplicated.

Not sure if this is an Affinity or Mac Os issue. But from recent issue with the lack of file preview on Affinity files on Mac, perhaps worth looking into. If any future legal dispute on design owner ship or similar, a proper time stamp on the file would be crucial evidence.

[MikeTO]

5 minutes ago, Darner said:

Looks like issue with the time stamp on files, in this case Affinity Designer on Mac with latest update 2.5.6 + Sequoia.
Even though the files are created a while ago, the time stamp says "created today", same time as "modified" and "last opened", when done small changes in files. The file has not been duplicated.

I think you're talking about macOS Finder timestamps since there have been no changes to the internal timestamps in the Fields panel of Affinity (they're still wrong due to the timezone bug.)

You're right, there is a bug with Finder timestamps and my files are all showing as created in the past week. I just did a test and created a file. Saved it. Waited a minute and made a change and saved it again and the Created timestamp changed to match the Modified timestamp. Waited another minute and the same thing happened. This is definitely a regression and it doesn't happen with v1.10. I searched the forums and didn't find a report so it must have been introduced rather recently.

5 minutes ago, Darner said:

If any future legal dispute on design owner ship or similar, a proper time stamp on the file would be crucial evidence.

Timestamps are rather meaningless for legal purposes since they're easy to change to whatever you want.

[Old Bruce]

39 minutes ago, Darner said:

If any future legal dispute on design owner ship or similar, a proper time stamp on the file would be crucial evidence.

 

22 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Timestamps are rather meaningless for legal purposes since they're easy to change to whatever you want.

Signed contracts and notarized printouts would definitely trump Timestamps.

[Darner]

50 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

I think you're talking about macOS Finder timestamps since there have been no changes to the internal timestamps in the Fields panel of Affinity (they're still wrong due to the timezone bug.)

You're right, there is a bug with Finder timestamps and my files are all showing as created in the past week. I just did a test and created a file. Saved it. Waited a minute and made a change and saved it again and the Created timestamp changed to match the Modified timestamp. Waited another minute and the same thing happened. This is definitely a regression and it doesn't happen with v1.10. I searched the forums and didn't find a report so it must have been introduced rather recently.

Timestamps are rather meaningless for legal purposes since they're easy to change to whatever you want.

@MikeTO Appreciate you took the time Mike!
You are correct, issue with the Mac Os timestamps.
Apparently it's a general bug on the latest Affinity version if you now got the same issue when testing.