File Dates Info

File Dates Info

[1] AppleSingle/AppleDouble Formats for Foreign Files Developer’s Note () <https://web.archive.org/web/20110717032808/http://users.phg-online.de/tk/netatalk/doc/Apple/v2/AppleSingle_AppleDouble.pdf>

The File Dates Info entry (ID=8) consists of the file creation, modification, backup and access times (see Figure 2-1), stored as a signed number of seconds before or after 12:00 a.m. (midnight), January 1, 2000 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). In other words, the start of the year 2000 GMT corresponds to a date-time of 0.