How to get last modification date of a file?
SolutionThis example shows how to get the last modification date of a file using file.lastModified() method of File class.
import java.io.File; import java.util.Date; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { File file = new File("Main.java"); Long lastModified = file.lastModified(); Date date = new Date(lastModified); System.out.println(date); } }Result
The above code sample will produce the following result.
Tue 12 May 10:18:50 PDF 2009
The following is an another sample example of last modification date of a file
import java.io.File; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; public class GetFileLastModifiedExample { public static void main(String[] args) { File file = new File("Main.java"); System.out.println("Before Format : " + file.lastModified()); SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"); System.out.println("After Format : " + sdf.format(file.lastModified())); } }
The above code sample will produce the following result.
Before Format : 0 After Format : 01/01/1970 05:30:00
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