How to discover a File's creation time with Java?

Question

Is there an easy way to discover a File\'s creation time with Java? The File class only has a method to get the \"last modified\" time. According to some resources I found

Answer 1

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;


public class CreateDateInJava {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        try {

            // get runtime environment and execute child process
            Runtime systemShell = Runtime.getRuntime();
            BufferedReader br1 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
            System.out.println("Enter filename: ");
            String fname = (String) br1.readLine();
            Process output = systemShell.exec("cmd /c dir \"" + fname + "\" /tc");

            System.out.println(output);
            // open reader to get output from process
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(output.getInputStream()));

            String out = "";
            String line = null;

            int step = 1;
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                if (step == 6) {
                    out = line;
                }
                step++;
            }

            // display process output
            try {
                out = out.replaceAll(" ", "");
                System.out.println("CreationDate: " + out.substring(0, 10));
                System.out.println("CreationTime: " + out.substring(10, 16) + "m");
            } catch (StringIndexOutOfBoundsException se) {
                System.out.println("File not found");
            }
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.err.println(ioe);
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            t.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

/**
D:\Foldername\Filename.Extension

Ex:
Enter Filename :
D:\Kamal\Test.txt
CreationDate: 02/14/2011
CreationTime: 12:59Pm

*/