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    Hope this is the right place. Does anyone know why you can change the windows created date with multiple programs if it is on a video on your hard drive but if it is on an old memory stick/thumb drive it has to be later that 1980? I've tried multiple programs and i know the thumb drive is old. I used it specifically because it wa s old to test a program i wrote.

    To be sure it wasn't my programming, i tried others but the error also. I can not find abd reference on google to thought maybe someone else has come across this.

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  2. My guess is the early file system did not support all operations, OR because of the "epoch" began in 1980, like it does in FAT16 and exFAT
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    @Raffriff42... Thanks so much. That makes perfect sense and the srcik is probably fat16 at best. It was driving me crazy with curiosity. Thanks again
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  4. raffriff42 is correct. The FAT file systems use a date format where a 7 bit (possible values 0 to 127) year field indicates the number of years since 1980. That means the years it represents can only range from 1980 to 2107.
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    @jagabo thanks for the additional information. Now it makes perfect sense. I dont know why i missed that in my searches. I'll chalk it up to age. Lol
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