Why is the CreationTime the same as LastWriteTime xamarin?

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I tried to set the Creation time, Last Write Time and Last Access Time of a file in Xamarin forms (Android). To do this I used this simple code:

File.SetCreationTime(path, DateTime);
File.SetLastWriteTime(path, DateTime);
File.SetLastAccessTime(path, DateTime);

But it sets the Creation Time the same as the Last Write Time and i got no exception. What should i do to fix this problem? On Windows it works fine...

Thanks for your help!

• Jason: "If the file system implementation does not support a time stamp to indicate the time when the file was created then this method returns an implementation specific default value, typically the last-modified-time" - developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/…
• Jason: Windows and Android use different file systems. And I don't believe there is any standard file system that all Android versions/devices use. So relying on these file attributes is probably not a good idea.
• Emil: @Jason do you know an alternative Filesystem for android? Only the File.SetCreationTime() does not work the others working fine - thats, why im wondering..
• Jason: You can't control the file system being used by the device. I think you just need to accept that this is not a reliable piece of data and find a different approach.