No answer here; just definitions.
As I have learned and accepted

creation date:
The time when a file is created in a directory
through the provided host API (meaning the time
I execute an FOPEN or other file creation statement;
not the time the data is posted to disk).

modify date:
The time when a change to the file's data is done
though the provided host API (meaning the time I
execute an FWRITE or other data changing statement;
not the time the data is posted to disk).

Access date:
The time when a file's data is read or written (same
API note as before).


And with that, I guess thats why its not trivial to just
change a file's filecode, or other structure defining attributes.
These are done with copying it to a newfile, thus giving
new dates.
Some things have been accepted like name change, limit change,
eof change,  and with provided special software, filecode change.

Now isn't there something called a status change date?
Maybe that has something to do with file definition changes.

Keven


donna garverick wrote:
> is there a place in our collection of documentation that annotates just
> what actions trigger a change to the modification date for a file?
> 
> we're revisiting some sox auditing things here and on the unix side,
> they're reporting (for example) if ownership or rwx for a file changed.
>  i was suprised to find that on both hp-ux and mpe changing the owner
> or access to a file does *not* change the modified date.  it appears to
> me that *internal* changes to a file will update the modified date but
> not external changes....hence my question.     - d
> 

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