Display CD/DVD Burn Date

[Johnbil]

Does anyone know of a utility program that displays the date that a DVD/CD was burned? I am not concerned with the dates of individual files & folders on the disc, but the disc itself. I have tried finding the info in My Computer with no success.

Regards...John

[aedipuss]

there is no such info on a burned disc.

[El Heggunte]

In IsoBuster, try the menu item "Sector View".

Over here, it works for discs recorded with Nero and Prassi ONES, but it seems some versions of ImgBurn did not care about the recording date

[Cornucopia]

there is no such info on a burned disc.

WRONG!

While RedBook AudioCDs don't have a burn date, All other types: Data CDs, DVDs, BDs (whether burned or pressed) CAN have volume date info.

They are part of the filesystem: ISO9660, RockRidge, Joliet, UDF

In ISO9660, they are in these byte sectors:

813 Volume Creation Date
830 Volume Modification Date
847 Volume "Expiration" Date
864 Volume Effective-as-of Date

There are similar fields in the other filesystems. An app is not required to fill these out when burning to still be compliant. That's probably why ImgBurn defaults to not using them.

Scott

[Johnbil]

Thanks for the replies, guys.

Scott, how can I view the dates you mentioned from a DVD?

John

[TreeTops]

Hex editor

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Those dates in the file system tell you when the file system was created, not when the disc was burnt.

You could have an ISO sitting on your hdd for years before actually burning it.

ImgBurn does and has always filled them out - well, at least one (maybe even two) of them anyway!

[El Heggunte]

@ LIGHTNING UK!: Many thanks for chiming in

Well, all that I can say is, when IsoBuster opens a disc in the "Sector View" mode, it goes directly to the first "page view" that is not entirely-filled with zeroes. To be honest, I've checked only three discs that were recorded thru ImgBurn, and in two of them, there was no date information in the first non-null "page" displayed by IsoBuster.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

It would depend on which file systems are present on the disc.

When you use the 'Sector View' feature in IsoBuster, it doesn't look for a non zeroed sector, it looks for the descriptor relevant to what you've right clicked on.

Right click a 'ISO' (ISO9660) entry in the tree on the left and it'll take you to the ISO9660 PVD (Sector 16). That's the one that contains the dates where Cornucopia said (above).
Right click a '>>>' (Joliet) entry and you'll go to the Joliet PVD (SVD) (Sector 17) - dates in the same place as in ISO9660 PVD.
Right click a 'UDF' entry and you'll go to the UDF PVD (Sector 32). The date in that (bytes 376-387) can't just be 'read' like the ones in ISO9660/Joliet PVDs.

[Noahtuck]

Yeah I was wondering WTF you guys are talking about in....

I use DVDInfoPro all the time to see when my dvdr's were burned from years and years and years ago....

EDIT:
Oop's...

Looks like LUK was correct!!
(not that i ever thought he was wrong mind you)

I just checked an ISO I ripped to my HDD back in jan. and it shows that date under properties but when I checked the burned disc I just made yesterday it show 2010 in DVDInfoPro.

I always thought DVDInfopro was showing when the disc was burnt....
DOHH!!!

[El Heggunte]

^
^ Thanks for the clarification