Set last modified time of a file or directory
- /*
- Set last modified time of a file or directory
- This Java example shows how set last modified time of a particular
- file or directory using setLastModified method of Java File class.
- */
- import java.io.*;
- import java.util.Date;
- public class SetFileLastModifiedTime {
- public static void main(String[] args) {
- //create file object
- File file = new File("C://FileIO//ReadText.txt");
- Date lastModified = new Date(file.lastModified());
- System.out.println("Last modified time of file is : " + lastModified );
- /*
- * To set last modified time of a file, use
- * boolean lastModifiedTime(long time) method of Java File class.
- *
- * Here, time is milliseconds since Jan 01, 1970 00:00:00.
- *
- * This method returns true if operation was successful, false otherwise.
- */
- lastModified = new Date();
- //set last modified time to current time
- boolean blnSuccess = file.setLastModified(lastModified.getTime());
- System.out.println("Was last modified time set successfully ?:" + blnSuccess);
- System.out.println("File last modification date is : " +
- new Date(file.lastModified()));
- }
- }
- /*
- Typical output would be
- Last modified time of file is : Sun Jan 06 16:23:55 EST 2008
- Was last modified time set successfully ?:true
- File last modification date is : Mon Jan 07 20:50:00 EST 2008
- */
