How to get the file creation date ?

There are no proper way to get the file creation date in Java, but we can use the following workaround to get the file creation date 

Command to get File creation date (Windows)

C:\>cmd /c dir c:\logfile.log /tc

Java code example

// Execute command using Windows shell

Process proc = 

     Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c dir c:\\logfile.log /tc");

// Get stream after command execution

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(

                      new InputStreamReader(proc.getInputStream()));

// Iterate till line where creation date displayed

String data = "";

for(int i=0; i<6; i++){

  data = br.readLine();

}

System.out.println("Extracted value : " + data);

// Split the line

StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(data);

String date = st.nextToken();   // Get date

String time = st.nextToken();   // Get time

System.out.println("Creation Date : " + date);

System.out.println("Creation Time : " + time);