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That is correct. However, I didn't want to bring up the concept of inodes or the difference between, say, "cp" and "cp --preserve=all" on the first go-round of this discussion. Especially since when you import a file using Calibre's GUI, you're going to get whatever default inode-modifying behavior that Calibre provides. And if you are experienced enough to know the difference, as you obviously do, then the original question in this post would not have needed to be asked. For all we know, the O.P. is using Windows, not *nix, and file permissions, ownerships, etc. are completely different there.
For the typical GUI-using *nix or Windows user, the timestamp generated by importing a file into Calibre is effectively the creation time, however, technically it is not. I agree with you there. Maybe this was my error in skipping over some of the details in a misguided attempt to make things simpler to understand.
"Follow not the null pointer, for madness awaits thee at it's end!"
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