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How to get file creation time on Mac OS X (64 bit)
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/* | |
* QFileInfo.created() on POSIX systems (like Mac OS X) returns the last modified time[1]. | |
* This is annoying because on Mac OS X you know the system (e.g. finder) has access to the actual creation time. | |
* Turns out that BSD systems (like Mac OS X) have an extension to sys/stat.h that contains the file creation time[2]. | |
[1]: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qfileinfo.html#created | |
[2]: http://developer.apple.com/library/IOS/#documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man2/stat.2.html | |
The recipe, then is (shown using the QT framework) | |
*/ | |
#include <QtCore> | |
#include <sys/stat.h> | |
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) | |
{ | |
QString fname("/Users/kghose/Sandbox/ChhobiTest/2005/2005_07_10/MVI_0693.AVI"); | |
QDateTime thedatetime; | |
struct stat64 the_time; | |
stat64(fname.toStdString().c_str(), &the_time); | |
thedatetime.setTime_t(the_time.st_birthtimespec.tv_sec); | |
qDebug() << thedatetime; | |
} |
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