Windows 10 How Does Date Modified work for Folders in Windows Explorer

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Here is an example folder structure of 2 folders.FolderA----->FolderBIn this example, Folder A is a parent of Folder B. It's a parent because it contains the Folder B, as FolderB is inside FolderA. Now when I change anything in Folder B, for example create a new file, the DateModified of Folder B changes. But this date modified does not change the date modified of the parent folder, Folder A, it remains unchanged. Now when I rename FolderB, the date modified of FolderB does not change. But, the date modified of the parent does change. So after changing folderB, folderA has a newer date than

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