[thelist] Getting a file's creation date in Java
Hassan Schroeder
hassan at webtuitive.com
Wed Apr 2 17:29:45 CST 2003
Roger Ly wrote:
> Is this true? Do file systems not store date created? I'm sure that
> every OS I've ever dealt with has the ability to display both the last
> modified date and the creation date of a file.
Then apparently you've never dealt with *nix :-)
(Try `man stat` for a list of file system properties.)
Yeah, W2K/NTFS seems to store a 'Creation Date', so if you only need
this on Windows, it's JNI time...
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