Question

I know how to use file.lastModified();.
When I println that I get (for example): Sat Mar 17 09:24:33 GMT+01:00 2012.
But is it possible that I only get the day, month and year as numbers, for example: 17 03 2012

Is their a way to do this, maybe a filter, or an other function to get last modified date in numbers?

Answer 1

You can use SimpleDateFormat class, i.e.

package com.example.file;

import java.io.File;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

public class GetFileLastModifiedExample
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {   
    File file = new File("\\somefile.txt");

    System.out.println("Before Format : " + file.lastModified());

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

    System.out.println("After Format : " + sdf.format(file.lastModified()));
    }
}