[4] In Windows, this is addressed by waiting for up to an hour to flush updated access dates to the disk.
In Windows, starting with Vista, file access time updating is disabled by default.
[citation needed] Although not specified by POSIX, most modern Unix file systems (such as ext4, HFS+, ZFS, and UFS2) allow to store the creation time.
As with all file system metadata, user expectations about MAC times can be violated by programs which are not metadata-aware.
Windows is not affected by this due to a workaround feature called File System Tunneling.