The only instances where I've ever even thought about atimes is noticing "noatime" flags on mounted filesystems. It seems like even creation-times and modifica

The only instances where I've ever even thought about atimes is noticing "noatime" flags on mounted filesystems. It seems like even creation-times and modification-times took a hit in noteworthiness when home PCs got online and all the files on disk were no longer artefacts of only you and your OEM. What the ctimes and mtimes of stuff downloaded (and unpacked from various compressed formats) ended up being always seemed somewhat unpredictable and trained me to gloss over them during most modes of PC use.