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C# program to get last access time of file or directory in UTC format

In this C# program, we are going to learn how to get last access time of file or directory in UTC format? To get last access time in UTC, we are using ‘GetLastAccessTimeUtc()’ method of ‘File’ class.
Submitted by IncludeHelp, on November 02, 2017

Given a file and a directory and we have to get and print their last access time in UTC format using C# program.

File.GetLastAccessTimeUtc()

This is a method of "File class, which returns the last access time of a file or a directory in UTC format.

Syntax:

File.GetLastAccessTimeUtc(path);

Parameter(s):

1. path - Location of file or directory.

Last access time contains following detail:

• Date
• Month
• Year
• Hour
• Minute
• Second
• AM/PM

Program

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            DateTime dt1;
            DateTime dt2;
    
            dt1 = File.GetLastAccessTimeUtc("ABC.TXT");
            Console.WriteLine("Last Access Time of file(ABC.TXT) in UTC: " + dt1);

            dt2 = File.GetLastAccessTimeUtc("mydir");
            Console.WriteLine("Last Access Time of directory(mydir) in UTC : " + dt2);
  
        }
    }
}

Output

Last Access Time of file(ABC.TXT) in UTC: 10/31/2017 4:25:36 PM
Last Access Time of directory(mydir) in UTC : 10/31/2017 3:38:23 PM

Note: In above program, we need to remember, when we use "File" class, System.IO namespace must be included in the program.

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