The File I/O API > The file I/O API > DWfile.getCreationDate() |
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Availability
Dreamweaver 4.0
Description
Gets the time when the file was created.
Arguments
fileURL
The argument is the file for which you are checking the creation time, expressed as a file:// URL.
Returns
A string containing a hexadecimal number that represents the number of time units that have elapsed since some base time. The exact meaning of time units and base time is platform-dependent; in Windows, for example, a time unit is 100ns, and the base time is January 1st, 1600.
Example
You can call this function and the DWfile.getModificationDate()
function on a file to compare the modification date to the creation date.
var file1 = "file:///c|/temp/file1.txt"; var time1 = DWfile.getCreationDate(file1); var time2 = DWfile.getModificationDate(file1); if (time1 == time2){ alert("file1 has not been modified since it was created"); }else if (time1 < time2){ alert("file1 was last modified on time2"); }
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