Wrong creation dates on my files

[Phillyjb1]

In.. System.. Internal storage... Chrome and other various system files have odd creation dates. What could this be?

 

[scary alien]

Welcome to our AndroidForums, @Phillyjb1 .

Can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing?

Also, what device and which app / utility are you using to see this behavior with?

 

[Phillyjb1]

In.. System.. Internal storage... Chrome and other various system files have odd creation dates. What could this be?

The date is 12/30 and other dates.. The year is 1969.

 

[lvt]

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.

 

[scary alien]

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]

In.. System.. Internal storage... Chrome and other various system files have odd creation dates. What could this be?

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 !

 

[Phillyjb1]

Other examples

 

[scary alien]

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% ( ) 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]

Thanks. I appreciate your help !

 

[mikedt]

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 !

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?

 

[Phillyjb1]

Those are when I clicked Chrome.. Then open as FILE EDITOR. That's what was inside. Google translate auto detect it as Chinese.

 

[kellysemail1128]

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

 

[kellysemail1128]

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

 

[tube517]

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

Yeah, when I used to root, I used to see strange stuff like that.