Hi everyone,
I’ve been going through my old files lately and noticed that some of them were missing a creation date, like so:
I can’t explain such behaviour, other than to blame LO v7.1.3.2 for failing to create the <meta:creation-date> tag in meta.xml. I have files that were created with v7.1.8.1 and retained their creation dates, so I’m suspecting that it was a bug that has since been resolved (hopefully).
Has anyone came across this issue, or know something about it?
Thanks.
Have you checked the file properties in your OS (which name you didn’t mention)? Most file browsers/managers allow this. It happens that creation dates are flushed to zero under hazardous circumstances. Usually, creation and last modification dates are extracted from the filesystem.
Note that 7.1 is really old (2021). I doubt anyone would try to memorize which problems (esp. such that could only affect a tiny percentage of users) were fixed in which version years ago 
@ajlittoz what I’m referring to here is the metadata produced by LibreOffice, not the OS, which is why I didn’t disclose that I’m running Manjaro Linux. Dolphin correctly displays the creation date stored in a Microsoft Office document, but this isn’t the case for LibreOffice, as shown below:
@mikekaganski that’s understandable. The reason why I believe this issue is relevant is that all the files created with this specific LO version ended up without a creation date (if LibreOffice is to blame, and not something else).
@micmalti
I am under Fedora 39 (Linux too) and I happened to have files whose creation date was reset to 0 (why? I don’t know and didn’t inquire). These dates were then displayed as Jan 1., 1970 in the file browser. My remark was a question to see if LO and file browser agreed on date display. You seem to answer negatively which incriminates LO.
