setctime.exe

The simplest command line tool to set file creation time on Windows

Usage:

setctime.exe path1 [path2 [path3 ...]]

This tool copies modification time to creation time. An exit code of 0 means success, and non-zero means failure.

Example:

> setctime.exe *.txt

foo.txt done
bar.txt done

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Ruby 2.0

t = Time.now
File::utime(t, t, 'test.txt')
system 'setctime.exe test.txt' or abort 'failed'

Python 2.7

import os
import sys
import time

t = time.time()
os.utime('test.txt', (t, t))
if os.system('setctime.exe test.txt') != 0:
    sys.exit('failed')

Perl 5.16

utime undef, 0, 'test.txt';
system('setctime test.txt') == 0 or die "failed";

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