Improve sorting by date in ImageDrawer

This ensures that, if available, we'll sort using the date the file was created rather than modified date. Modified will be used as a fallback.

py/server_backend.py

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ def create_familiar_dictionaries(names, type, image_extension_filter, info_exten
             # logger.info(f"file_name_no_ext, file_ext: {file_name_no_ext, file_ext}")
             
             # Get time of creation since the last epoch, in seconds
-            file_age = os.path.getctime(file_path)
+            file_age = get_creation_time(file_path)
 
             file_path = file_path.replace("\\", "/")
             # logger.info(f'file_path: {file_path}')

py/utils.py

@@ -389,3 +389,11 @@ def is_pil_image(obj):
 # Check if an object is a PyTorch tensor
 def is_torch_tensor(obj):
     return isinstance(obj, torch.Tensor)
+
+def get_creation_time(file_path):
+    """Get file creation time if available, otherwise fallback to modification time."""
+    try:
+        stat = os.stat(file_path)
+        return stat.st_birthtime  # Works on some Linux filesystems
+    except AttributeError:
+        return os.path.getmtime(file_path)