Roger Dube (2004-04-05 08:11):

> Has anyone dealt with the process of getting a file's creation date and/or date modifed information?
> I could use a pointer or two there.

Hi Roger,

my Win32 Programmer's Reference tells me that there is a function

BOOL GetFileInformationByHandle(HANDLE hFile, LPBHFI lpFileInfo)

where lpFileInfo points to a BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION structure.
This one consists of 7 DWORDs and 3 FILETIMES (create, access, write).
This function gives you all kinds of information.

If you're only interested in the time aspects, you should go with

BOOL GetFileTime(hFile, create, access, write)

where hFile is a HANDLE and the remaining arguments are again FILETIMEs,
made up of DWORD lowDateTime and DWORD highDateTime.

Once you have a FILETIME, you might want to convert it with
FileTimeToLocalFileTime and then FileTimeToSystemTime

Wow, it seems to be quite a job to do this on Windows ...

hth,
s.

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