Strangness with recent Chrome update files and the times they display

[humpbacktwale]

On monday, Google release version 100.0.4896.75 to address a security issue. However, if I use ls -l "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Frameworks/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Versions", or just go into the package contents in that directory, it lists April 1st, 20:44.

Now there are two problems with this. The first is this predate the release by 3 days. The second is my Mac was powered off at this time. It needed to be powered on today, and I have checked the console utility, there are no logs generated from when I powered it off on friday, until now, and none from around that time either. Using the pmset log, there are not power events either around those times.

This being the case, why are the times for this version of chrome and it's associated events as they appear? Is this the case for anyone else?

 

[BigBlur]

The date/time you see inside app bundles aren't when it was installed or put on your computer. It's more likely when the developer built or compiled the app (or the particular files). Google built/compiled the update on Friday, April 1st; and released it on Monday, April 4th.

 

[humpbacktwale]

Yeah I think the date added column is the one that gives the actual date you got the files. I think I was just assuming it used the same convention as windows.