Getting and Setting the Modification Time of a File or Directory - Java File Path IO

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Description

Getting and Setting the Modification Time of a File or Directory

Demo Code

import java.io.File;

public class Main {
  public void m() throws Exception {
    File file = new File("filename");
    // Get the last modified time
    long modifiedTime = file.lastModified();
    // 0L is returned if the file does not exist

    // Set the last modified time
    long newModifiedTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    boolean success = file.setLastModified(newModifiedTime);
    if (!success) {
      // operation failed.
    }//from   w ww . ja  v  a  2  s.  c  o  m
  }
}

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