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Wrong creation dates on my files

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Phillyjb1

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In.. System.. Internal storage... Chrome and other various system files have odd creation dates. What could this be?
 
Those files are probably created when you didn't set the date on your device yet. The default date of many Unix like systems is Unix timestamp that starts from 1970.
 
Still need more info / context...I've seen that before, but it could simply be the app / utility that you are using that is not able to display the dates properly (or that is what they truly are--probably a base/default date or zero that is interpreted / displayed to what you are seeing).
 
Phillyjb1 said:
In.. System.. Internal storage... Chrome and other various system files have odd creation dates. What could this be?
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Ok. These 2 pics pertain to.. System apps... These are for Chrome. Opened it as text file editor. It's in Chinese... Google can't translate.. Create date 1969 !
 

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Yeah, you're looking in the /system/app/Chrome folder and using the Astro File Manager app.

I see files on my Nexus with dates like "07 Sep 71" (for the Chrome.apk file) which is probably simply a default / base date because I'm 101% ( :p ) sure that this file was NOT created back then ;).

Also, here's what it looks like when I view / list it from an adb shell:

ScaryAlien@LV-426 ~
$ adb shell
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
shell@hammerhead:/ $ su
root@hammerhead:/ # cd /system/app/Chrome
root@hammerhead:/system/app/Chrome # ls -l
-rw-r--r-- root root 12124304 1971-09-07 17:31 Chrome.apk
drwxr-xr-x root root 2014-11-20 19:07 lib
root@hammerhead:/system/app/Chrome #​

Nothing nefarious or weird going on here--it just is what it is.

Also, the second file that you're looking at is probably the Chrome.apk file which contains both compressed and binary date--much / most of what you are looking at will not display as recognizable ASCII data without proper decompiling.

Again, nothing wrong here.
 
Phillyjb1 said:
Ok. These 2 pics pertain to.. System apps... These are for Chrome. Opened it as text file editor. It's in Chinese... Google can't translate.. Create date 1969 !
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FYI it's not Chinese, it's gibberish. Could be it's assuming it's in Chinese, and is just showing gibberish as a result. Is this particular adware file manager/viewer from China?
 
Those are when I clicked Chrome.. Then open as FILE EDITOR. That's what was inside. Google translate auto detect it as Chinese.
 
So strange lol. I also see it in other places besides my files. When i logged onto xda forums it said the last time i logged in was 1970 lol
 

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So strange lol. I also see it in other places besides my files. When i logged onto xda forums it said the last time i logged in was 1970 lol
 
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