import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.nio.file.Files;

import java.nio.file.Path;

import java.nio.file.Paths;

import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributeView;

import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;

import java.nio.file.attribute.FileTime;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;



public class FileCreationTime {



  public static FileTime getCreationTime(File file) throws IOException {

    Path p = Paths.get(file.getAbsolutePath());

    BasicFileAttributes view

        = Files.getFileAttributeView(p, BasicFileAttributeView.class)

                    .readAttributes();

    FileTime fileTime=view.creationTime();

    //  also available view.lastAccessTine and view.lastModifiedTime

    return fileTime;

  }



  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    File file = new File("c:/temp/images.jpg");

    System.out.println(file + " creation time :"

        + new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss")

                   .format(FileCreationTime.getCreationTime(file).toMillis()));

  }

}