code: def creation_date(path_to_file, return_datetime=True):
      
      if platform.system() == 'Windows':
          created_at = os.path.getctime(path_to_file)
      else:
          stat = os.stat(path_to_file)
          try:
              created_at = stat.st_birthtime
          except AttributeError:
              # We're probably on Linux. No easy way to get creation dates here,
              # so we'll settle for when its content was last modified.
              created_at = stat.st_mtime
  
      if return_datetime:
          return datetime.fromtimestamp(created_at)
      else:
          return created_at
docs: Retrieve a file's creation date.
  
      Try to get the date that a file was created, falling back to when it was
      last modified if that isn't possible.
  
      See http://stackoverflow.com/a/39501288/1709587 for explanation.
  
      :param path_to_file: File path
      :param return_datetime: Bool, returns value in Datetime format
      :return: Creation date