File Date and Time

[Gary007]

How do you return the creation and modification date and time of a file?

Use the FileDateTime function.

Msgbox FileDateTime("C:\file.exe")

[makai]

Public Type WIN32_FIND_DATA
dwFileAttributes As Long
ftCreationTime As FILETIME
ftLastAccessTime As FILETIME
ftLastWriteTime As FILETIME
nFileSizeHigh As Long '* ((MAXDWORD = 2,147,483,647) +1)
nFileSizeLow As Long
dwReserved0 As Long
dwReserved1 As Long
cFileName As String * MAX_PATH
cAlternate As String * 14
End Type

Public Declare Function FindFirstFile _
Lib "kernel32" Alias "FindFirstFileA" ( _
ByVal lpFileName As String, _
lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long

Public Declare Function FindNextFile _
Lib "kernel32" Alias "FindNextFileA" ( _
ByVal hFindFile As Long, _
lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long

Public Declare Function FindClose Lib "kernel32" _
(ByVal hFindFile As Long) As Long
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Public Type FILETIME
dwLowDateTime As Long
dwHighDateTime As Long
End Type

Public Type SYSTEMTIME
wYear As Integer
wMonth As Integer
wDayOfWeek As Integer
wDay As Integer
wHour As Integer
wMinute As Integer
wSecond As Integer
wMilliseconds As Long
End Type

Public Declare Function FileTimeToSystemTime Lib "kernel32" (lpFileTime As FILETIME, lpSystemTime As SYSTEMTIME) As Long
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Private Function xFileDate(CT As FILETIME) As String

Static ds As Single, ts As Single
Dim ST As SYSTEMTIME

If FileTimeToSystemTime(CT, ST) Then
ds = DateSerial(ST.wYear, ST.wMonth, ST.wDay)
ts = TimeSerial(ST.wHour, ST.wMinute, ST.wSecond)
xFileDate = Format$(ds, "yyyy.mm.dd ") & Format$(ts, " hh:mm:ss")
Else
xFileDate = ""
End If

End Function