how to convert File Creationtime to localtime

[d_darkie07]

Hi,


I'm a newbie to VB.NET and I'm having some difficulty in viewing the
file creation time. Most links I have read do not seem to have any
problem with viewing such information, but all I get is a date in the
year 1601??!!

I want to see the localtime as I would when I sue sysdate()

Here's the code that I'm using:


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Imports System.IO.File
....
Dim FileProperties As System.IO.Fileinfo(filepath)
Dim FileDate As String


FileDate =
DateTime.FromFileTime(FileProperties.CreationTime.ToFileTime).ToLocalTime.T­oLongDateString



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This gives me the date as "01/01/1601 11:00 AM"


I have seen someone doing it much simpler with:


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Dim fileName As String = "C:\Download\readme.txt"
Dim fileData As String
Dim fileDetails As System.IO.FileInfo = New
System.IO.FileInfo(fileName)


With fileDetails
fileData = "File was created at: " & _
.CreationTime.ToShortDateString
End With


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....and apparently that was sufficinet. This doesn;t work for me either.



Any help would be much appreciated.


Thanks,
Darkie

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Hi,

Try to process all dates by using the datetime structure.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../cpref/html/frlrfsystemdatetimeclasstopic.asp

Than you can use all the lot of the methods that there are for that to get
the (partial) string date that you want for whatever reason.

Be aware that in the current versions the IDE shows dates only in the USA
datestyle, which can be very confusing for most people outside the USA.

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I'm a newbie to VB.NET and I'm having some difficulty in viewing the
file creation time. Most links I have read do not seem to have any
problem with viewing such information, but all I get is a date in the
year 1601??!!

The code below seems to work fine on my machine:

\\\
MsgBox( _
New FileInfo( _
"C:\WINDOWS\Angler.bmp" _
).CreationTime.ToLocalTime.ToString() _
)
///

Which Windows version are you using? Note that this property is not
supported on Windows 98.