To get the Last Modified Time of a file, we can use the lastModified method of the File class present in the java.io package.
public long lastModified()
This method doesn’t take any argument.
This method returns the last modified time as a long value.
The below code demonstrates how to use the lastModified method to get the last modified time of a file.
import java.io.File;import java.util.Date;class FileLastModifiedTime {public static void main(String[] args) {// File pathString filePath = "test.txt";// create a File objectFile file = new File(filePath);// get lastModified timeLong lastModified = file.lastModified();System.out.println("Last modifiedTime is: " + new Date(lastModified));}}
In the above code:
In lines 1 and 2: Imported the Files and Date classes.
In line 7: Created a String variable holding the path of the file as value (we have a test.txt file present in the same folder in which the program is executing).
In line 9: We have created a File object for the filePath.
In line 11:*Used the lastModified method to get the last modified time of the file. This will return the time in milliseconds.
In line 12: Created a new Date object from the last modified time of the file and printed it.