How to get create/last modified dates of a file in Delphi?
Delphians tend to like the FindFirst
approach (the SearchRec
structure has some of those), but I'd suggest the Win32 API function GetFileAttributesEx
.
Try
function FileAge(const FileName: string; out FileDateTime: TDateTime): Boolean;
From SysUtils.
function GetFileModDate(filename : string) : TDateTime;
var
F : TSearchRec;
begin
FindFirst(filename,faAnyFile,F);
Result := F.TimeStamp;
//if you really wanted an Int, change the return type and use this line:
//Result := F.Time;
FindClose(F);
end;
F.Time has since been Deprecated, Help file says Use F.TimeStamp.
Just to update this due to later versions of Delphi
From the DSiWin32 freeware library:
function DSiFileTimeToDateTime(fileTime: TFileTime; var dateTime: TDateTime): boolean;
var
sysTime: TSystemTime;
begin
Result := FileTimeToSystemTime(fileTime, sysTime);
if Result then
dateTime := SystemTimeToDateTime(sysTime);
end; { DSiFileTimeToDateTime }
function DSiGetFileTimes(const fileName: string; var creationTime, lastAccessTime,
lastModificationTime: TDateTime): boolean;
var
fileHandle : cardinal;
fsCreationTime : TFileTime;
fsLastAccessTime : TFileTime;
fsLastModificationTime: TFileTime;
begin
Result := false;
fileHandle := CreateFile(PChar(fileName), GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, nil,
OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0);
if fileHandle <> INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE then try
Result :=
GetFileTime(fileHandle, @fsCreationTime, @fsLastAccessTime,
@fsLastModificationTime) and
DSiFileTimeToDateTime(fsCreationTime, creationTime) and
DSiFileTimeToDateTime(fsLastAccessTime, lastAccessTime) and
DSiFileTimeToDateTime(fsLastModificationTime, lastModificationTime);
finally
CloseHandle(fileHandle);
end;
end; { DSiGetFileTimes }