Strange dates far in the future

[RalphM]

I suddenly saw strange date stamps on folders in XY (way in the future), so I went and timestamped these folders with a CFA that makes the created date identical to the modified but they still display as wrong.
The same folders show proper dates in Win Explorer.

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The files reside on a Synology NAS but I never had any troubles so far.

[admin]

Great thread title!

So the error is only in the display, not in the stamping?

[RalphM]

It would appear that Win Explorer does some trickery in its display.
If I check the properties of one of these folders in both WE and XY (same shell dialog I guess) they both show the same wrong created date in 2421 but WE seems to adapt the display of the created column to match modified if it is a "silly" date.

[admin]

Totally clueless. Dates are simple. They are just numbers. Can't see how they could get silly, can't see any pattern in your screenshot, never heard of anything like that.

[RalphM]

And yet here they are.
Maybe another screenshot helps?

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[admin]

Just shows what you already said.

So there is no way to timestamp these dates back to now / to any other date?

[RalphM]

Not with the usual tools as far as tested.
I found some old posts that something similar happened a few years back on Synology NAS's so the problem may lay there.
Still confused how WE manages to display something different though.

Will keep you posted.

[admin]

I added a way to retrieve the raw 8 byte value of the each filedate. Next beta:

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echo filetime(,, "hex");  //modified date of current file as 8 byte little endian hex, eg: 01DA002E35164B00

Maybe it sheds some light on the mystery.