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creation date of a file - urgent

2 replies on 1 page. Most recent reply: Mar 14, 2002 12:03 PM by Matt Gerrans

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sonata

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creation date of a file - urgent

Posted: Mar 14, 2002 1:20 AM

I would like to know whether there is any method to find the creation date of a file as there is for last modified date in java

Charles Bell

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Re: creation date of a file - urgent

Posted: Mar 14, 2002 8:47 AM

No because that would be platform specific.
All platforms support file-modification times to the nearest second.

public long lastModified()
Returns the time that the file denoted by this abstract pathname was last modified.

public boolean setLastModified(long time)
Sets the last-modified time of the file or directory named by this abstract pathname

Matt Gerrans

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Re: creation date of a file - urgent

Posted: Mar 14, 2002 12:03 PM

So, if you are working on a specific platform only (probably Windows, in this case), then the thing you can do is write native nethods (JNI) to get this platform-specific information when you are on that platform. JNI would allow you to access the FindFirstFile() Win32 API function, which will give you the WIN32_FIND_DATA that has the information you seek.

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