How to Get File Last Modified Date in Java

In this tutorial, I am attaching simple program about Get File Last Modified Date in Java.

We can able to get the last modified date of the file using Java program. In order to do that we may have to invoke the predefined method called lastModified(). Which is belongs to java.io.File class. It will return the long value. that can be passed as argument of java.util.Date constructor then we can get the Date Object for further usage. The sample program were attached below.

GetModifiedDate.java

package com.dineshkrish.files;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Date;
/**
* 
* @author Dinesh Krishnan
*
*/
public class GetModifiedDate {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Defining the File Object
File file = new File("C:\\example.txt");
long lastModified = file.lastModified();
// Creating Date Object using long(ie: lastModified) value
Date lastModifiedDate = new Date(lastModified);
// Printing the Result
System.out.println(lastModifiedDate);
}
}

Output

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Wed Oct 19 17:35:55 IST 2015

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