JCL Help:SetFileCreation

 JCL Help: SetFileCreation Function

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Summary

Sets the file's creation time stamp.

Pascal

 function SetFileCreation(const FileName: string; const DateTime: TDateTime): Boolean;

Parameters

Parameters	Description
const FileName: string	The name of the file for which to set the time of creation.
const DateTime: TDateTime	The date and time to set the file's creation stamp to. You must supply the UTC based date and time. To convert from a local date and time use the LocalDateTimeToDateTime function from JclDateTime.

Return Value

If the function succeeds the result is True, otherwise it's False.

Description

SetFileCreation sets the specified file's creation timestamp to the supplied datetime. This routine cannot be used to set the creation timestamp of a directory. See SetDirCreation for that.

See Also

SetFileLastWrite SetFileLastAccess GetFileLastAccess GetFileLastWrite GetFileCreation

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Unit

JclFileUtils

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Marcel van Brakel

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