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Par2: Getting file date and time without opening file - API call
1998-04-24 -- Todd Carlson
 
Getting Created, Modified and Last Accessed file date and time without 
opening file - API call (Directory will not give created and last accessed
dates)

GetFileTime requires that you open the file, this code will do the same
thing, (and more) without opening the file, if you have the file open,
you should be able to use this as a guide to get GetFileTime working.

BTW - I just wrote this off the top of my head so I don't know if this will
compile or not, but I know the code is solid.  Oh, it's 32bit only.

FILETIME              GROUP,TYPE
dwLowDateTime           DWORD
dwHighDateTime          DWORD
                      END

WIN32_FIND_DATA       GROUP,TYPE
dwFileAttributes        DWORD
ftCreationTime          GROUP(FILETIME).
ftLastAccessTime        GROUP(FILETIME).
ftLastWriteTime         GROUP(FILETIME).
nFileSizeHigh           DWORD
nFileSizeLow            DWORD
dwReserved0             DWORD
dwReserved1             DWORD
cFileName               CSTRING( FILE:MaxFilePath )
cAlternateFileName      CSTRING( 14 )
                      END

SYSTEMTIME            GROUP,TYPE
wYear                   WORD
wMonth                  WORD
wDayOfWeek              WORD
wDay                    WORD
wHour                   WORD
wMinute                 WORD
wSecond                 WORD
wMilliseconds           WORD
                      END

CLAFILETIME           GROUP,TYPE
FileDate                LONG
FileTime                LONG
                      END

INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE  EQUATE(4294967295)

iFileName       CSTRING(255)
iFileFind             GROUP( WIN32_FIND_DATA ).
iFindHandle           DWORD
iFileTime             GROUP( CLAFILETIME ).

   MAP
    ConvertFileTime( FILETIME iTimeSource, *CLAFILETIME iTimeDest )
    MODULE('WinAPI')
        GetLastError(),DWORD,PASCAL,RAW,DLL(dll_mode)
        FileTimeToSystemTime(*FILETIME lpFileTime, *SYSTEMTIME
lpSystemTime),BOOL,RAW,PASCAL,DLL(dll_mode),PROC
        FileTimeToLocalFileTime(*FILETIME lpFileTime, *FILETIME
lpLocalFileTime),BOOL,RAW,PASCAL,DLL(dll_mode),PROC
        FindFirstFile( *cSTRING lpFileName,
*WIN32_FIND_DATA ),HANDLE,RAW,PASCAL,DLL(dll_mode),NAME('FindFirstFileA')
        FindClose(  HANDLE hFindFile ),BOOL,RAW,PASCAL,dll(dll_mode),PROC
    END
  END

  CODE
  iFindHandle = ZERO
  iFileName   = 'C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT'
  iFindHandle = FindFirstFile( iFileName, iFileFind )
  IF iFindHandle = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE
    STOP( 'Unable to find File!' )
    FindClose( iFindHandle )
    RETURN
  ELSE
    CLEAR( iFileTime )
    ConvertFileTime( iFileFind.ftCreationTime, iFileTime )
    STOP( 'File was Created - ' & FORMAT( iFileTime.FileDate, @d3 ) & ' @ '
& FORMAT( iFileTime.FileTime, @T4 ) )
    ConvertFileTime( iFileFind.ftLastAccessTime, iFileTime )
    STOP( 'File was Last Accessed - ' & FORMAT( iFileTime.FileDate, @d3 ) &
' @ ' & FORMAT( iFileTime.FileTime, @T4 ) )
    ConvertFileTime( iFileFind.ftWriteTime, iFileTime )
    STOP( 'File was Written- ' & FORMAT( iFileTime.FileDate, @d3 ) & ' @ ' &
FORMAT( iFileTime.FileTime, @T4 ) )
    FindClose( iFindHandle )
  END
  RETURN


ConvertFileTime                     PROCEDURE( *FILETIME iTimeGroup,
*CLAFILETIME iTimeDest )

iTempLocalTime         GROUP(FILETIME).
iTempSystemTime        GROUP(SYSTEMTIME).

  CODE
  FileTimeToLocalFileTime( iTimeGroup, iTempLocalTime )
  FileTimeToSystemTime( iTempLocalTime, iTempSystemTime )
  iTimeDest.FileDate = DEFORMAT( iTempSystemTime.wMonth & '/' &
iTempSystemTime.wDay & '/' & iTempSystemTime.wYear, @d2 )
  iTimeDest.FileTime = DEFORMAT( iTempSystemTime.wHour & ':' &
iTempSystemTime.wMinute & ':' & iTempSystemTime.wSecond, @t4 )
  RETURN


Carl Barnes notes:
WORD is normallay ULONG but in this case its USHORT so the code should be:

SYSTEMTIME      GROUP,TYPE              !System time struct
wYear            USHORT
wMonth           USHORT
wDayOfWeek       USHORT
wDay             USHORT
wHour            USHORT
wMinute          USHORT
wSecond          USHORT
wMilliseconds    USHORT
                END



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