Missing Creation Dates

Docker Hub
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Hi,

where could I propose to include the “Created” date and the image hash in docker hub webpages?

I do find it highly annoying and misleading if docker hub pages like

do claim “Last Updated 2 days ago” or “Last pushed 2 days ago”, where the image itself is age old.

E.g.

rabbitmq:4.0-management
says
Last pushed 2 days by [doijanky]

but reality is

docker pull rabbitmq:4.0-management

4.0-management: Pulling from library/rabbitmq
4b3ffd8ccb52: Pull complete
883958f9d92b: Pull complete
f860d4e2d5bc: Pull complete
96aedc9464ed: Pull complete
753f597d0f33: Pull complete
1cd0a4c43107: Pull complete
3b2069fd77a3: Pull complete
2614367bcc3f: Pull complete
e200531438bf: Pull complete
5ebe8ca8bf0e: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:438c232a3a39d091645c5ac2b382c9f46c1ff3f1230587c0f20c5f1f7b6a6c95
Status: Downloaded newer image for rabbitmq:4.0-management

docker image list rabbitmq:4.0-management

REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
rabbitmq 4.0-management 5e283cfbf5e6 13 months ago 264MB

docker image inspect rabbitmq:4.0-management

    "Created": "2024-09-20T21:15:09Z",

It is absolutely misleading to (just) show when an image has been pushed the last time, but hiding when it was actually built.

This is also a security problem, because it makes it difficult to recognize old images, possible containing security flaws that have been fixed meanwhile.

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Is that build date info available through the docker hub API or hidden?

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You can propose features in the roadmap

Or if you want to point out something that looks like a Docker Hub bug, or bad exprience, you can try the hub feedback

The date on Docker Hub shows when the image was “last pushed”, not when it was created, but I am a little confused as well. If I run the following command, I see folders created abuut 10 days ago, not in 2024:

docker run --rm -it --entrypoint ""  rabbitmq:4.0-management ls -lahs /usr/lib/valgrind --full-time

total 20K
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2025-10-09 22:20:02.000000000 +0000 .
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K 2025-10-09 22:20:02.000000000 +0000 ..
 12K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.2K 2022-11-03 13:19:55.000000000 +0000 python3.supp

I pruned all my images to make sure t is not because I had some of the layers already on my machine, but got the same output. So maybe it is a builder issue and the metadata was not updated for some reason. Since the image was pushed days ago, I would assume it was pushed because it was rebuilt.

Showing the time when it was created would still be a good idea.

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