This object reports the Unix-style creation date of a flash file system entry, seconds since 1/1/1970, and the description warns that files created by older bootcode versions always show 1/1/1970 00:00 regardless of when they were actually written, and if the switch's own clock was wrong at creation time the stored date reflects that error. An admin trying to identify the newest firmware image on flash by sorting on this date needs to be aware of these caveats, since an old-bootcode-created file or one made while the clock was misconfigured would show a misleading date. A firmware file showing this date as exactly 1/1/1970 00:00 was very likely written by an old version of the bootcode rather than actually created on that literal date.