Getting and Setting the Modification Time of a File or Directory

This example gets the last modified time of a file or directory and then sets it to the current time.
File file = new File("filename"); // Get the last modified time long modifiedTime = file.lastModified(); // 0L is returned if the file does not exist // Set the last modified time long newModifiedTime = System.currentTimeMillis(); boolean success = file.setLastModified(newModifiedTime); if (!success) { // operation failed. }

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