Is there any historic reason? `Stat` stores last accessed time, last modified time and last changed time , but not the creation time! Isn't that important information. 

I can't understand why the developers would leave out such an important piece of information. Some filesystems do store the data, as pointed in this [question](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7562/what-file-systems-on-linux-store-the-creation-time). But clearly the importance of this information has been downplayed. Why is it so?

Note:

```
stat -c %W <filename>

```

Returns 0 in my system (fedora 22).