How to change files CREATION time? I tried to use 'touch' command but it changes only the last modified time - it does not change the first date - creation date. (After checking by 'stat' it still shows me the original file creation date)  Is there any option to do this?  thanks in advance
Is it touch(1) from coreutils-8.4-37.el6.x86_64 or my brain which is broken?  $ touch abc $ LANG=C stat abc   File: `abc'   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file Device: fd04h/64772d    Inode: 10485773    Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: (3060399/ nodakai)   Gid: (  418/   quant) Access: 2016-10-14 18:42:06.189751847 +0800 Modify: 2016-10-14 18:42:06.189751847 +0800 Change: 2016-10-14 18:42:06.189751847 +0800 $ touch -a abc $ LANG=C stat abc   File: `abc'   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file Device: fd04h/64772d    Inode: 10485773    Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: (3060399/ nodakai)   Gid: (  418/   quant) Access: 2016-10-14 18:42:17.374235446 +0800 Modify: 2016-10-14 18:42:06.189751847 +0800 Change: 2016-10-14 18:42:17.374235446 +0800 $ touch --help | grep 'access time'   -a                     change only the access time   As you see, it was not only atime but also ctime which was updated by touch -a !?!?  The filesystem is ext4 over LVM if that makes any differences.
I recently flagged a question as "very low quality", just like I've flagged many questions in the past. However, my flag was found to be unhelpful this time. The same thing happened when I recently flagged a post as not an answer.  Are the moderators being more strict when it comes to handling quality related flags? If so, why? Any way to send a personal message to another user? There has been quite a few times that I wished I could send a message to another user on SO - not ask a question for everyone to see, but just a short message informing them of something or requesting them to do something.  Are there any plans to allow this to happen in the future?  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I liked this theme and I want to make a beamer theme that looks similar. I tried with beamercolorbox but I failed to position the box to the bottom.      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