It is the time a file was created in the current directory which means if a copy of a file is made, the copy gets a new creation time being the current time while the last modification time is not changed. This file time has nothing to do with file contents. The creation time which is the time a file was created in the current directory.Archivers like 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZIP store the last modification time of a file (or directory being in real also a file in file system with special attribute directory) on adding a file to an archive and restore the last modification time on extracting a file from an archive. The last modification time which is the time the file contents was last modified.There are three file times available on NTFS using the NTFS precision time. The system drive with the Windows folder is by default using NTFS as file system. See Find out if file is older than 4 hours in batch file on Stack Overflow for a comprehensive description. Automatic adjustment for daylight saving time.
