More dumb newbie questions

[Ignazio Palmisano]

Knapp wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:58 PM, John Desmond <jdesmond at fast.net> wrote:
>> Salutations, gentlefolk !
>>
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>> 3 - The default for Linux seems to be that files downloaded from the
>> web, etc, keep the date that they were originally created.  How can I
>> change this so that downloaded files take the date they were 'created'
>> on my computer ?
> 
> Don't know. Also, I am not sure that is true.

I'm not sure it's true either, but anyway: is this Date created or Date 
modified that stays the same? Date created should be the time they were 
downloaded, while Date modified should stay in sync with the remote file 
until one of the two files is modified (so you would see the slightly 
unintuitive situation of a file which has been last modified before it 
was created :) ). To change the date of a file to the current date, 
type: "touch filename" at the command prompt, it will set the date to 
the current time.
HTH,
I.