What is changing the modification date of every folder?

Almost every folder and subfolder on my hard drive has the same modification date and time but they were not actually modified. The modification dates on individual files within are still unique. I looked around in the logs for some event at the date and time but couldn't find anything. What could cause this?

Hi,
take a look at LogMiner
regards
vlado

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Okay, I tried changing the creation date with SetFile, but it kept giving me an error:
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