>>Your testing in interesting. See my response regarding caching. This may be part of the reason you are seeing these results.
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>Hidy,
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>I'm not so sure. I believe that the time stamps are stored in the FAT. I don't think it would be practical to cache information going there, especially if the handle had been closed. Seems like asking for trouble.

I think they're stored in the directory entry the FAT entry points to. AFAIR the structure of a directory entry contained date and time, packed in two bytes each (so only seven bits were used for the year, with offset on 1980 and they'll have a problem after 2107, and only five bits for the seconds, so all files report even number of seconds).