Question Does it cause any issues if my 'date created' is off on most files?

[ComputersOftenIrritateMe]

About a year ago I had to move everything off of my pc in order to reset windows. I just copied it all to an external drive and then back onto my pc afterwards.

I did not sync the windows time and date prior to moving the files back onto my device, however, and as a result the 'date created' for most of them is not actually accurate to when they were actually moved back over (relative to the synchronized 'correct' time that it atually was) .

I did sync the time shortly after so that's no issue, but the timestamps are still listed with the incorrect one. Is this liable to cause any issues in windows, or are these timestamps essentially visual-only?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

You're perfectly fine.

 

[DSzymborski]

These things only really matter if the dates/times are important to you. For most people, it's not actually important beyond convenience, though there are edge cases in organizational work where it's more important to have the date of things.

 

[ComputersOftenIrritateMe]

These things only really matter if the dates/times are important to you. For most people, it's not actually important beyond convenience, though there are edge cases in organizational work where it's more important to have the date of things.

So nothing that would actually impact the functionality of the file or its place in the file system (beyond sorting)

My though process was that the files being 'out of sync' with the system time could potentially cause some sort of issue with how windows handles files, especially assuming the creation dates were incorrectly set as being in the future relative to the actual time.

 

[USAFRet]

Zero issues.