File and directory timestamps are one of the resources forensic analysts use for determining when something happened, or in what particular order a sequence of events took place. As these timestamps usually are stored in some internal format, additional software is needed to interpret them and translate them into a format an analyst can easily understand. If there are any errors in this step, the result will clearly be less reliable than expected.
My primary purpose this article is to present a simple design of test data suitable for determining if there are errors or problems in how a particular tool performs these operations. I will also some present some test results from applying the tests to different tools…
