urgent... get file creation date

[ac71ve]

hi i have been trying to get a files creation date but have not found any way.. is there a java method to do this or some sort of api i can get to find this information.

thanks for the help

 

[sedj]

File f = new File("C:/test.txt"
System.out.println(f.lastModified());

will give you the last time the file was modified. Bear in mind though that File.lastModified() returns a long - which is the number of milliseconds from 01/01/1970 !!!