Hello everyone, before reporting it as a bug, I wanted to ask how it’s possible that the creation date is later than the modification date?
I did the test in a sandbox, Windows 10, latest version of Obsidian, and latest version of its installer.
Look at the file’s properties in your file system—not in Obsidian but in Windows Explorer. Does it show the same dates?
Created and modified times are usually a system file management “decision”. It is possible for the system to save a modified date that’s earlier than a created date.
Thank you for your response. I checked it in the Windows 10 File Explorer, and indeed, it exhibits the same behavior. Does Obsidian take the dates from the Windows file system? Do you know why there is such a disparity in dates?
Copying a file often gives it a current created time while retaining the original file’s modified time.
Moving a file between storage locations—such as between devices, drives, or sync services—can also do it.
Obsidian does seem to get created and modified info from the file system, whether that’s Windows, MacOS, Android, Linux, or wherever the file is.
Because of everything you experienced and with what has been written above already, a rule of thumb is that you shouldn’t rely on the filesystem’s date keeping if you need dates for organisation, project management or PKM. The good practice is to put dates inside properties like created:, modified: or updated:, etc. and to make these properties “timestamps”. Then you can use these dates and timestamps reliably in DataView, in Bases, etc. There are plugins that can automatically set and update such fields. Personally, I’m using Front Matter Timestamps.
Olivier 
Thank you for the explanation!!
Thank you for the recommendation
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