FIX THE DATE MODIFIED TO ACTUALLY REFLECT THE DATE A FILE WAS MODIFIED.... THIS IS SUCH A CRITICAL ISSUES THAT HAS NOT BEEN ADDRESSED IN 5 YEARS!!!

@Terry, ah, I see the problem now. This is not what I meant :) I assumed it’s about creating a file initially, and not consecutive saves.
Does not happen on Windows, the creation date stays unchanged when a file is saved. It gets overwritten only if I decided to Save As into the same file.

Replying to Egor,
Sorry, no, you are not getting this right. ;-)

Creation date and modified dates should be SEPARATE dates. Ai is changing the creation date to the modified date (e.g. anytime you save the file both dates are changed to the 'modified date'--see attached file that was created at 2:00 PM and now says 3:56 PM).

How is this still an issue for Illustrator 2022 after it was finally fixed last year? Need to keep track of time spent on files – not to mention basic organization.

Modify date gets written for any new file and matches the creation date. It's not a thing that Ai specifically does, it's just normal.
Am I getting this right? Why do you want to not have a date modified?

My Illustrator file's created date would be saved as the modified date. How to solve this?
I'm using Illustrator 26.0.2 on Mac Big Sur 11.6.2

Mac Illustrator 2020 & 2021 are still changing the Creation Dates to Modification Dates whenever the files are saved. It's September 2021 already so I have had this issue for more than a year already! Illustrator 2020 & 2021 are the only software that are doing this!

My computers:
2020 iMac 27", 8-core i7, 72GB RAM, 8GB VRAM, OS Catalina 10.15.7
2015 MBP 15", 4-core i7, 16GB RAM, 2GB VRAM, OS Catalina 10.15.7

Ditto.

date modified – date created = how long I've been working with the AI file/project
veeeeery important!!!

(AI v24.3.0 / macOS Mojave v10.14.6)

Same problem! The creation date is important to keep track of when I started working on that artwork!

I'm using an iMac, OS Catalina, and Adobe Illustrator 2021 V25.1, the latest version as of this writing. I'm finding that when I modify an Illustrator file, when saved it changes the Date Created file date. Why is this happening? I need these creation dates! For example, I created a file, and then saved a png of the file, the next day I opened the same Illustrator file, and when closing the file the finder window shows that the Date Created and Date Modified have been changed are the same, yet the png created the day before shows the correct Created Date.

Experiencing the same issue with the Illustrator version 24.2.1, on Mac OS 10.13.6.