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Old 10-10-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is online now Forum Staff  
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UNIX does not have nor does it preserve a file creation timestamp.
There are
ctime (looks like creation time but is not) is the time of the last inode modification.
inodes are file metadata areas in the filesystem
mtime - last time the file was modified
atime - last time the file was accessed.

If it is imperative to keep the windows creation time, change the destination filename
in FTP to reflect the time.