[cobalt-users] Qube2 - Netatalk does NOT preserve the file creation or modification date/time stamps

[Malcolm McLeary <mim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Guys,

Netatalk on a Qube2 does NOT appear to preserve the file creation or
modification date/time stamps when a file is copied to a volume ... however
this seems to be dependent on the file type.  For example;

A text file called test.txt ...

Location            Creation                Modification
local disk          2 Dec 1999 9:32 am      2 Dec 1999 9:32 am
Netatalk volume     2 Dec 1999 9:32 am      2 Dec 1999 9:32 am

A Netscape bookmark called Telstra Internet - TDA ...

Location            Creation                Modification
local disk          23 Aug 1999 9:28 pm     23 Aug 1999  9:28 pm
Netatalk volume     30 Aug 1969 4:39 pm      2 Dec 1999 10:05 am

These files were simply copied to the Qube2 with Finder.

Why didn't Netatalk preserve the file creation or modification date/time
stamps on the non text file?

Why was the Creation time backdated 30 years?

Has anyone seen this sort of behaviour before?

Cheers,  Malcolm

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