>>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).
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>Hi Dragan,
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>I don't believe this is the case in 32 bit windows. Each file has three FILETIME structures (Creation, Modification, and Last Access) associated with it. This structure is made up of 2 DWORDS, for a total of 8 bytes for each of the time stamps. Internally, Windows converts these to a SYSTEMTIME structure for use in display. Still, I believe it's part of the directory entry.

The new extended directory entry, sure (and not the FAT). Though, it must also keep the old structure to keep compatibility - when I write something to a floppy, it shows the correct time when read from as old as a DOS5.0 machine.