# Missing Creation Dates

**URL:** <https://forums.docker.com/t/missing-creation-dates/150175>\
**Category:** Docker Hub\
**Created:** [October 18, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/missing-creation-dates/150175 "2025-10-18T10:28:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![hadmut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/hadmut/32/54326_2.png) [@hadmut](https://forums.docker.com/u/hadmut)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/missing-creation-dates/150175/1 "2025-10-18T10:28:34Z")

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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

> **[rabbitmq Tags | Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/_/rabbitmq/tags)**
>
> Docker Official Image rabbitmq Tags page

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 Hub Container Image Library | App Containerization](https://hub.docker.com/)**
>
> Welcome to the world's largest container registry built for developers and open source contributors to find, use, and share their container images. Build, push and pull.

# 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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**Author:** ![thenickward](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/thenickward/32/54416_2.png) [@thenickward](https://forums.docker.com/u/thenickward)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/missing-creation-dates/150175/2 "2025-10-18T10:42:46Z")

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

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**Author:** ![rimelek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/rimelek/32/41602_2.png) [@rimelek](https://forums.docker.com/u/rimelek)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/missing-creation-dates/150175/3 "2025-10-18T23:09:31Z")

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You can propose features in the roadmap

> **[docker/roadmap](https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues)**
>
> Welcome to the Public Roadmap for All Things Docker! We welcome your ideas. - docker/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

> **[docker/hub-feedback](https://github.com/docker/hub-feedback/issues)**
>
> Feedback and bug reports for the Docker Hub. Contribute to docker/hub-feedback development by creating an account on GitHub.

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:

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

```

```plaintext
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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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/docker/original/3X/d/4/d4fbccd46c81bfcffe9822e20e17736d946fa821.png) [@system](https://forums.docker.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/missing-creation-dates/150175/4 "2025-11-17T23:09:47Z")

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