DWfile.getCreationDate()

Availability

Dreamweaver 4.

Description

This function gets the time when the file was created.

Arguments

fileURL

• The fileURL argument, which is expressed as a file:// URL, is the file for which you are checking the creation time.

Returns

A string that contains 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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