How can "modify" date be before "create" date in properties?

When I go to a document's properties, the modify date is before the create
date. For example: Created on January 28, 2005; Modified on January 5,
2005. How did that happen?

My guess is that you copied it to a new location giving it a new
creation date, after you modified the original.

AudreyCWS wrote:

> When I go to a document's properties, the modify date is before the create
> date. For example: Created on January 28, 2005; Modified on January 5,
> 2005. How did that happen?

Actually Bob, I have seen this on some PPT files I have created. They
remained on the same computer and in the same folders. Since I have
absolutely no necessity to use those dates for anything I do, it never
bothered me. Don't know if it is one of the undocumented bugs in Office or
not. My version of Office that did this was 2003.


"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:entIQCUcHHA.3484@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> My guess is that you copied it to a new location giving it a new creation
> date, after you modified the original.
>
> AudreyCWS wrote:
>
>> When I go to a document's properties, the modify date is before the
>> create date. For example: Created on January 28, 2005; Modified on
>> January 5, 2005. How did that happen?
>

It was a new file and never modified? That would be odd, picking up
leftover data instead of writing the current date.

LVTravel wrote:

> Actually Bob, I have seen this on some PPT files I have created. They
> remained on the same computer and in the same folders. Since I have
> absolutely no necessity to use those dates for anything I do, it never
> bothered me. Don't know if it is one of the undocumented bugs in Office or
> not. My version of Office that did this was 2003.
>
>
> "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:entIQCUcHHA.3484@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>
>>My guess is that you copied it to a new location giving it a new creation
>>date, after you modified the original.
>>
>>AudreyCWS wrote:
>>
>>
>>>When I go to a document's properties, the modify date is before the
>>>create date. For example: Created on January 28, 2005; Modified on
>>>January 5, 2005. How did that happen?
>>
>
>

I never tracked where the original date and modified dates came from. I did
repeatedly save the file as I was creating it but that still wouldn't
account for that issue. I don't know if the program picked up a graphic
file date or what. All I know is that it happened.


"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OJ7YxZXcHHA.5060@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> It was a new file and never modified? That would be odd, picking up
> leftover data instead of writing the current date.
>
> LVTravel wrote:
>
>> Actually Bob, I have seen this on some PPT files I have created. They
>> remained on the same computer and in the same folders. Since I have
>> absolutely no necessity to use those dates for anything I do, it never
>> bothered me. Don't know if it is one of the undocumented bugs in Office
>> or not. My version of Office that did this was 2003.
>>
>>
>> "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:entIQCUcHHA.3484@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>My guess is that you copied it to a new location giving it a new creation
>>>date, after you modified the original.
>>>
>>>AudreyCWS wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>When I go to a document's properties, the modify date is before the
>>>>create date. For example: Created on January 28, 2005; Modified on
>>>>January 5, 2005. How did that happen?
>>>
>>
>>
>