How to get the file creation date in Java

There are no official way to get the file creation date in Java. However, you can use the following workaround to get the file creation date in Windows platform.

package org.best.example.file;
 
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
 
public class GetFileCreationDateExample
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    { 
 
     try{
 
      Process proc = 
         Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c dir c:\\logfile.log /tc");
 
      BufferedReader br = 
         new BufferedReader(
            new InputStreamReader(proc.getInputStream()));
 
      String data ="";
 
      //it's quite stupid but work
      for(int i=0; i<6; i++){
       data = br.readLine();
      }
 
      System.out.println("Extracted value : " + data);
 
      //split by space
      StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(data);
      String date = st.nextToken();//Get date
      String time = st.nextToken();//Get time
 
      System.out.println("Creation Date  : " + date);
      System.out.println("Creation Time  : " + time);
 
     }catch(IOException e){
 
      e.printStackTrace();
 
     }
 
    }
}