There is a way to know the creation date of a directory , just follow these steps :

1. Know the inode of the directory by ls -i command (lets say for example its X)




2. Know on which partition your directory is saved by df -T /path command ( lets say its on /dev/sda1 )




3. Now use this command : sudo debugfs -R 'stat <X>' /dev/sda1

You will see in the output :

crtime: 0x4e81cacc:966104fc -- mon Sep 27 14:38:28 2013

crtime is the creation date of your file .

What I tested :

1. Created a directory at specific time .


2. Accessed it .



3. Modified it by creating a file .




4. I tried the command and it gave an exact time .



5. Then i modify it , and test again , the crtime remained the same ,
   but modify and access time changed .