Program to Find creation, last modification and last accessed date of file in date, month and year in java7 using java.nio.file

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  • Program 1 to Find creation, last modification and last accessed date of file in date, month and year in java7 using java.nio.file
  • Program 2 to Find creationdate of file in date, month and year in java7 using java.nio.file




Program 1 to Find creation, last modification and last accessed date of file in date, month and year in java7 using java.nio.file >

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributeView;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
/** JavaMadeSoEasy.com */
public class CreationDateInJava7 {
   public static void main(String... args) throws IOException {
          String fileName = "c:/myFile.txt";
          // create java.nio.file.Path
          Path path = Paths.get(fileName);
          // create BasicFileAttributeView and BasicFileAttributes
          BasicFileAttributeView basicFileAttributeView = Files
                       .getFileAttributeView(path, BasicFileAttributeView.class);
          BasicFileAttributes basicFileAttributes = basicFileAttributeView
                       .readAttributes();
          //Now, let's find  creation, last modification and last accessed date
          System.out.println(fileName + " was created on : "
                       + basicFileAttributes.creationTime());
          System.out.println(fileName + " was last modified on : "
                       + basicFileAttributes.lastModifiedTime());
          System.out.println(fileName + " was last accessed on : "
                       + basicFileAttributes.lastAccessTime());
   }
  
}
/* OUTPUT
c:/myFile.txt was created on : 2015-07-24T18:11:32.003828Z
c:/myFile.txt was last modified on : 2015-07-28T09:54:28.896337Z
c:/myFile.txt was last accessed on : 2015-07-28T18:11:32.003828Z
*/



Program 2 to Find creationdate of file in date, month and year in java7 using java.nio.file >

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributeView;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
/** JavaMadeSoEasy.com */
public class CreationDateInJava7 {
   public static void main(String... args) throws IOException {
          String fileName = "c:/myFile.txt";
          // create java.nio.file.Path
          Path path = Paths.get(fileName);
          // create BasicFileAttributeView and BasicFileAttributes
          BasicFileAttributeView basicFileAttributeView = Files
                       .getFileAttributeView(path, BasicFileAttributeView.class);
          BasicFileAttributes basicFileAttributes = basicFileAttributeView
                       .readAttributes();
          // Now, let's find creation date in date, month and year
          Date creationDate = new Date(basicFileAttributes.creationTime().to(
                       TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS));
          System.out.println(fileName + " creation date " + "\n date : "
                       + creationDate.getDate() + "\n month : "
                       + (creationDate.getMonth() + 1) + "\n year : "
                       + (creationDate.getYear() + 1900));
   }
  
}
/* OUTPUT
c:/myFile.txt creation date
date : 24
month : 7
year : 2015
*/


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