title: How to discover a File's creation time with Java?
body: <p>Is there an easy way to discover a File's creation time with Java?  The File class only has a method to get the "last modified" time.  According to some resources I found on Google, the File class doesn't provide a getCreationTime() method because not all file systems support the idea of a creation time.</p>
  
  <p>The only working solution I found involes shelling out the the command line and executing the "dir" command, which looks like it outputs the file's creation time.  I guess this works, I only need to support Windows, but it seems very error prone to me.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any third party libraries that provide the info I need?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong> In the end, I don't think it's worth it for me to buy the third party library, but their API does seem pretty good so it's probably a  good choice for anyone else that has this problem. </p>