Incorrect dates and file folder size

Here's something strange. I was trying to burn a DVD today and the contents added up to 4.3 gigs. When I opened Toast Titanium to burn the disc, the contents only added up to 4.0 gigs! Why is there a difference of 300 megabytes? So I burned the disc, and it appeared to work OK, but when I catalogued the disc in Disk Tracker, the creation year is 1923?! Any idea what's going on? The date on my computer is accurate. Is this problem on my Mac or is it a problem with Toast Titanium?

Sounds like a case of Apple's +new way+ for measuring the size of storage. Starting with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Apple has Mac OS X reporting things like hard drive capacity and file size based on how humans count, in Base 10. Previously, Apple was following the industry norm and displaying such information based on how computers count. So...
"kilo" instead of being 1000, was 1024.
"mega" instead of being 1,000,000 (1000x1000), was 1,048,576 (1024x1024)
"giga" instead of being 1,000,000,000 (1000x1000x1000), was 1,073,741,824 (1024x1024x1024)
and so on...
As you can see, as the numbers get larger, the percentage discrepancy between the human number and the computer number gets larger. That's why before Snow Leopard, a 160GB hard drive was reported as only having the capacity of about 149GB. But if you look at that same hard drive capacity under Snow Leopard, a 160GB hard drive has a reported capacity of 160GB. Apple is basically translating the computer number back to human (Base 10) terms.
Third parties have not updated their apps to follow Apple's lead. So Toast is probably still reporting the number as the computer number. The difference of 0.3 GB is about a 7% discrepancy, which makes sense for a capacity in the "giga" range.
So to answer your question, both the Mac and Toast are correct. They are just calculating that number differently.
I don't know what's going on with the date. That may be a separate issue.

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