Finder still says Date Modified = "Today" when it was actually 2-3 days ago

Question

I've been living with this bug for 3 years, always thinking that it was so obvious certainly Apple would fix it with the next revision. I can't believe that something so obvious could go on through three major OS revisions:
In the Finder, the relative date "day" is often given as "Today" when in fact it was several days ago. You get the correct answer from "Get Info". Am I the only that has ever noticed this, or have all other Mac users simply learned to live with it?
Here's a screenshot which shows this nonsense in action:
http://www.sheepsystems.com/FinderDateBug.png
Jerry Krinock
Powerbook G4 1 GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

Answer 1

How long did you have that "doue6tcj.default" Finder
window open like that?
About 2 minutes
Long enough so that at one
point in time, "Today..." was the proper date to be displayed?
No
If so, it sounds like what might be happening is that
the display of the information about a file in the
Finder is not not updating dynamically.
Even though the answer was no, what you say is still true. The Finder is not updating dynamically as it obviously should.
While the
Finder does dynamically show the addition or deletion
of files, probably for performance reasons, it won't
check to see if a file has been modified until it
"needs to", which is when you select the item.
Selecting the item does not usually help. Also, I happen to know that there are simple API available to get the contents of a directory and their attributes, and given that < 100 items will fit in a window, this could be done in the blink of an eye.
<div class="jive-quote">A couple of workarounds for this would be to hold
down the up or down arrow key to quickly scan through
and select each file. (Doing a Select All in and of
itself doesn't cause the Finder to update information
about all the items in the selection). Another option
is to use Rainer's Nudge
Contextual Menu to convince the Finder to update
its display. For example, you could do a quick Select
All, then control click on the selected files, choose
"Nudge # items", and the display will be updated for
all of the items.
I hadn't heard about this utility, but its existence proves that this is indeed a problem which others have seen. We shouldn't have to install a third-party utility to fix a simple bug that has been around for three years.
Mark, thank you for helping me to confirm this bug. I've now reported this bug to Apple, and encourage others to do the same! I'll end with this quote from Rainer Brokerhoff's web page, which explains one method which Apple could use to fix this bug:
"In Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), parity with FreeBSD 5 introduced the so-called kqueue mechanism...and the Finder doesn't use it. I suppose Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) will implement that..."
That was dated Feb 14, 2005. Sorry, Rainer! Looks like you have the same misplaced confidence in Apple that I do.