/*
Get Last modification time of a file or directory
This Java example shows how to determine last modification time of a particular
file or directory using lastModified method of Java File class.
*/
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Date;
public class GetLastModificationTimeOfAFile {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//create file object
File file = new File("C://FileIO//demo.txt");
/*
* To determine last modification time of a particular file or directory, use
* long lastModified() method of Java File class.
*
* This method returns long representing the time file was last modified as
* milliseconds since Jan 01, 1970 00:00:00. This
* method returns 0L if the file does not exists or in case of IOException.
*
*/
long lastModified = file.lastModified();
System.out.println("File was last modifed at : " + new Date(lastModified));
}
}
/*
Typical output would be
File was last modifed at : Sun Jan 06 18:24:01 EST 2008
*/
