Finder shows incorrect modification date

Another horrible finder bug. It showed a wrong modification date for a pdf file that I had just changed. The date shown was 22 januari, but the correct date, which was displayed only after relauching finder, was 18 februari. The shell command "ls -al" DID show the correct date. Moving up and down the directory hierarchy did not solve the problem, only a relaunch did.
At the same time I noticed that some other files in the same directory had ridiculous modification and creation dates. Those dates were something like 2001, 1pm, while the entire directory, including all the files in it, was created on 22 januari 2015.
This is similar to a bug I reported here last week, where Finder did not show a certain file at all. I am using a different computer now, so that many hardware related issues are ruled out.
I will file a bug report. I am spending a considerable part of my time filing Yosemite bugs.

Had the same thing on my MacBook Air with a 256gb SSD.
Finder was showing 177gb available. Disk Utility said 54gb.
I ran the Terminal command suggested by others. And a MIRACLE happened!
Now Disk Utility says I have 155gb available. But Finder reports an incredible 709gb of free space... on my 256gb drive!
It must be a blessing from Steve Jobs.

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I should not do edit property and save, to create new version.
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I just copied a very large number of files using Finder and I discovered that some modification dates were changed. For me this wasn't a problem, but it's strange and I don't understand why it happened. I wonder if anyone else has seen a similar behavior. Here are the details:
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I just did a better search of this forum and discovered a similar case from 2010.

I just found the following in another thread:
Actually yes. In my case it was my antivirus McAfee doing it. If I copied the files after disabling it, the file dates were preserved.
BTW if only few files are copied, this problem does not arise.
YMMV.
--neeraj00
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Here is the answer....
zchrykng
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