How to view and change the timestamp of a file say creation date

'stat' command will give the last-accessed/last-modified/file-created date with timestamps in it.

[prakashc@cu120 jbossweb-tomcat50.sar]$ stat commons-beanutils-1.8.0.jar
File: `commons-beanutils-1.8.0.jar'
Size: 231320 Blocks: 464 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 303h/771d Inode: 6547316 Links: 1
Access: (0700/-rwx------) Uid: ( 7069/prakashc) Gid: ( 4001/__cubitu)
Access: 2011-02-09 07:01:55.000000000 +0530
Modify: 2011-02-09 05:50:40.000000000 +0530
Change: 2011-02-09 06:12:08.000000000 +0530

using 'touch' command you can modify the date created

touch commons-beanutils-1.8.0.jar -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm [.SS]

MM - The month of the year [01-12].
DD - The day of the month [01-31].
hh - The hour of the day [00-23].
mm - The minute of the hour [00-59].
CC - The first two digits of the year.
YY - The second two digits of the year.
SS - The second of the minute [00-61].