The birthtime can be retrieved using using the statx function, available since glibc 2.28. In case the kernel lacks support for the underlying syscall, glibc falls back to stat internally. The validity of the btime field is indicated in the mask field, e.g. when the kernel or the filesystem lacks support for btime.
For details, see http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/statx.2.html
In dolphin, the creation time column is now filled in linux :
FEATURE: 381367
FIXED-IN: 5.58