Get the Last Access Time for a File

Question

I know that using File object we can get the last modified time for a File (i.e. File.lastModified()). But, my requirement is to get the last accessed time for a File in Java. How do I get it?

Answer 1

You will need to use the new file I/O API (NIO2) which comes with Java 7. It has a method lastAccessTime() for reading the last access time.

Here is a usage example:

Path file = ...
BasicFileAttributes attrs = Files.readAttributes(file, BasicFileAttributes.class);
FileTime time = attrs.lastAccessTime();

For more information see Managing Metadata in the Java Tutorial.