Setting creation or change timestamps

Question

Using utimes, futimes, futimens, etc., it is possible to set the access and modification timestamps on a file.

Modification ti

Answer 1

I had a similar issue, and wrote my answer here.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/17066309/391040

There are essentially two options:

1. Slight change in kernel (code included in link)
2. Change the system clock to the desired ctime, touch the file, then restore current time. (shell script for that included in link).