Timeline for How do I find out when a shapefile was created?
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| Sep 23, 2015 at 19:52 | comment | added | Lynn O | thank you for your advice, I will give these suggestions a try! | |
| Sep 22, 2015 at 22:00 | comment | added | user30184 | See also GDAL ticket trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3919. GDAL has used a fixed "date of last update" value of "95-07-26" until version 2.0. The last update field of .dbf file may give some useful information but it is not especially reliable. | |
| Sep 22, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | Vince | The dBase header has a date in it as well which would be more accurate than the file modified date (if the access utility honored the obligation to update the header). However, the .dbf timestamp only has day precision (YYMMDD) | |
| Sep 22, 2015 at 19:00 | history | answered | PXR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |