File creation time in OSX with Java 7

Question

I need to get the creation time attribute of a file on OS X Lion. I have tried with Java nio, but it returns the modification time instead:

BasicFileAttributes attr = Files.readAttributes(path, BasicFileAttributes.class);     
System.out.println("Creation time: " + attr.creationTime());

I have read similar questions (Determine file creation date in Java) and I know that some file systems don't support file creation timestamps but HFSP does so shouldn't BasicFileAttributes.creationTime method return the right value on OS X?

I asked in Oracle forums and it is a bug in Java 7. I submitted it to java 7 bug database. — Ivan, Jun 16 '13 at 11:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 02 '13 at 20:14

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No sure why , but are you seeing the same time stamp for all of these :

System.out.println("creationTime: " + attr.creationTime());
System.out.println("lastAccessTime: " + attr.lastAccessTime());
System.out.println("lastModifiedTime: " + attr.lastModifiedTime());

answered Apr 02 '13 at 20:14

sreeprasad

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No, just for creationTime and lastModifiedTime. – Ivan Apr 03 '13 at 07:25
When did you create the file ? Did you check the file attributes i.e creation time and modified time as soon as you created ? – sreeprasad Apr 03 '13 at 16:27
I compare the result with the creation date shown by "ls -lU" command. – Ivan Apr 04 '13 at 08:04

File creation time in OSX with Java 7

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