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GetFTime

Get file last modification time.

Declaration

Source position: dosh.inc line 110

  procedure GetFTime(var f; var time: LongInt);

Description

GetFTime returns the modification time of a file. This time is encoded and must be decoded with UnPackTime. F must be a file type, which has been assigned, and opened.

Errors

Errors are reported in DosError

See also

Name Description
PackTime Pack DateTime value to a packed-time format.
SetFTime Set file modification time.
UnPackTime Unpack packed file time to a DateTime value

Example

Program Example9;
uses Dos;
{ Program to demonstrate the GetFTime function. }
Function L0(w:word):string;
var
  s : string;
begin
  Str(w,s);
  if w<10 then
   L0:='0'+s
  else
   L0:=s;
end;
var
  f    : File;
  Time : Longint;
  DT   : DateTime;
begin
  if Paramcount>0 then
    Assign(f,ParamStr(1))
  else
    Assign(f,'ex9.pp' );
  Reset(f);
  GetFTime(f,Time);
  Close(f);
  UnPackTime(Time,DT);
  Write ('File ',ParamStr(1),' is last modified on ');
  Writeln (L0(DT.Month),'-',L0(DT.Day),'-',DT.Year,
           ' at ',L0(DT.Hour),':',L0(DT.Min));
end.