Why does "file" change the creation time on some Unix systems?

[Roger B.A. Klorese]

In article <2268 at faline.bellcore.com> hill at faline.UUCP (Chris Hill) writes:
>In article <> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>If what you say is completely true, you must be running a pretty bizarre
>>version of UNIX; no version I know of maintains the *creation* time of a
>>file. 
>
>If so, to what "creation" time does the -c option of ls refer?

No "creation" time at all, but a "change" time, that of the inode when
the permissions, ownership, etc. are changed.
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