Golang : Get file last modified date and time
In this tutorial, we will learn how to get a file last modified date and time with Go. Getting the last modified date and time is fairly straight forward. We will just extract the information via http://golang.org/pkg/os/#FileInfo
We will test the code with a make up binary.file
with the following information
localhost:~ admin$ ls -la binary.file
-rwxr-xr-x 1 admin staff 2206048 Feb 12 22:00 binary.file
and this the Go code to retrieve the last modified date and time information from the binary.file
gettime.go
package main
import (
"fmt"
"os"
)
func main() {
filename := "binary.file"
// get last modified time
file, err := os.Stat(filename)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
modifiedtime := file.ModTime()
fmt.Println("Last modified time : ", modifiedtime)
}
Execute the code above and this will be output :
go run gettime.go
Last modified time : 2014-02-12 22:00:18 +0800 MYT
Hope this tutorial can be useful to you.
See also : Golang : Change a file last modified date and time
By Adam Ng
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