Obsidian Appimage using wrong "created at" time

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Steps to reproduce

1. Have sync enabled
2. Create note on phone, in the synced vault.
3. Open Obsidian on computer (ideally after a good chunk of time since step 2).
4. Find your note, hover over it.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Y

Expected result

The “Created at” timestamp should be that of when the note was created, not when the underlying file on the machine was created. See stat output for the underlying file.

Actual result

The “Created at” timestamp shows when the underlying file was created, instead of when the note was created.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.7.7
Installer version: v1.7.6
Operating system: #49~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Nov 6 17:42:15 UTC 2 6.8.0-49-generic
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

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Additional information

[WhiteNoise]

Most FS on linux do not actually have a created time. Obsidian sync tries to preserver the created time when it synchronizes a file. Anyway, this is not a bug, because:

Handle file creation date / modified date internally (don't use the filesystem info)

Currently obsidian uses the filesystem information to determine file creation date and file modification date. This is brittle because not all filesystems support this feature and these dates can become meaningless during file transfer operations. It would be better to handle those internally and directly by Obsidian. Related: