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How can a file have been 'created' in 1641?

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00:00 Question
00:59 Accepted answer (Score 109)
03:47 Answer 2 (Score 17)
04:59 Answer 3 (Score 5)
05:44 Answer 4 (Score 3)
06:40 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/1308412/...

Question links:
[image]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WtVV.jpg

Accepted answer links:
[like Unix systems do]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
[Windows Dev Center]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library...(
[Another answer hypothesizes]: https://superuser.com/a/1308486/48078
[Year 2038 Problem]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_...
[is still affected]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/7/2010/.../
[have already expanded]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_...
[number of possible values in a 64-bit integer]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9,223,372,...
[@corsiKa]: https://superuser.com/users/92767/corsik...
[actually tried to set this]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9999...

Answer 3 links:
[the Windows epoch is at 1601-01-01 00:00]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewt.../?
[is 1 266 705 294]: https://www.timeanddate.com/date/duratio...
[2010-02-20 23:34:54 CEST]: https://www.unixtimestamp.com

Answer 4 links:
[from the "Why is the Win32 epoch January 1, 1601?" entry from March 6, 2009:]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewt.../?

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