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Yehuda Shiran November 15, 2000
Probing the File Creation Date
Tips: November 2000

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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To find out a file's creation date, use the DateCreated property of the File object. Here is a piece of script that will print the file's creation date:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
  myActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
  file = myActiveXObject.GetFile("c:\\test.txt");
  alert(file.DateCreated);
// -->
</SCRIPT>

Here is the alert box you will get:


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