It was the day ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic computer was 
revealed to the world. I guess you can't have a digital file created before 
that ;-)

Mark

On 16 Nov 2009, at 17:16, Matt Gough wrote:

> Can someone let me know if there is something magical about a file having its 
> creation date set to:
> 
> 1946-02-14 08:34:56 +0000
> 
> I am guessing it is a special flag used by Finder to let it know that a file 
> is busy (since even after a restart a file with such a creation date is shown 
> dimmed)
> Am I correct?
> 
> Are there any other magic dates that are being used?
> 
> FYI - I am writing a FUSE file system and need to prevent such dates ending 
> up at the back-end.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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