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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 21:36:45 JST kaia
   @4censord it says birth time, but it always matches modtime?
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 21:37:07 JST kaia

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     @4censord like changing the file also changes birth time
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     noe のえ (noe@sapphic.engineer)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 21:49:02 JST noe のえ

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     @kaia @4censord it depends how you change it.
     
     An "atomic write" to a file will write out the new content to a temporary file, delete the old file, and move/rename the temporary file to the old file path.
     
     This would always cause a file to have a mod and create time to be the same.
     
     If you're editing with any text editor or flat-file database, they all do this since it prevents data loss if the write fails.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 21:49:36 JST kaia

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     • noe のえ
     @noe @4censord oh makes sense