In linux, there is no creation time, there are only access, modify, and change dates.
The POSIX standard only defines three distinct timestamps to be stored for each file: the time of last data access, the time of last data modification, and the time the file status last changed. Linux does not provide a kernel API for accessing the file creation times, even on filesystems supporting them (ext4, Btrfs and JFS), perhaps it will be impelemented in the future.
To modifie the accessed and modified time in a file, you can use the command touch
with these options
-a = accessed
-m = modified
ctime
(change time) – Stéphane Chazelas Jan 10 '17 at 13:25touch newfile; cat oldfile > newfile; mv newfile oldfile
– Shadur Jan 10 '17 at 16:02