Can Spotlight search for file creation time ?

Hi,
Is it possible to use Spotlight to find files with a specific creation date and creation time ?
Example:
creation date: exactly 03/03/2008
creation time: after 10:00 and before 12:00

Hi Kees, not that I'm aware of, and since you can't run Classic and "Find File", I'd get EasyFind, Spotlight won't be reliable...
http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/
Near the bottom of the page.
you can at least sort by date/time then to narrow it.

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