When I hover the mouse cursor over the documents in the left sidebar a popup appears that shows the date and time of the last change and of the creation of that note.
Expected result
The popup should show the correct time of creation.
Actual result
While the time of the last change is dispayed correctly, the time of creation always shows up as 1970-01-01 01:00
I’m not entirely sure, but I think Linux systems don’t save the creation time of files (which most likely will be the reason for Obsidian to use Unixtime 0 instead).
I have been looking at node.js documentation and reading birth date has been added recently. It’s possible we get this function working properly on linux once we upgrade electron. You could try to download a fresh version of obsidian from the website and see if this solves the issue.
I had the same issue, and am also using Ubuntu 20.04.2. It was a bigger nuisance for me since I use a plugin that grabs the creation file date from Obsidian. In my case, I was using an NTFS drive to store my files. When I reformatted it to ext4, the original file creation dates appeared in Obsidian.
I’m using pCloud on Linux and the network drive it create, as the time of writing, does not return the creation date. It’s not an Obsidian problem.
So if you use pCloud you probably have to find another way to store the creation date for your notes.
This is a filesystem problem so not much we can do about it.
I think it’s possible that in the future we move to handle creation date/modified date internally.
