How to get the last modified date of a file in C++?

On Win32 platform, you can get the attribute information of a file easily by just calling GetFileAttributesEx().

The information you got includes creation time, last access time, and last write time (last modified date).

Windows API:

BOOL WINAPI GetFileAttributesEx(

  __in   LPCTSTR lpFileName,

  __in   GET_FILEEX_INFO_LEVELS fInfoLevelId,

  __out  LPVOID lpFileInformation

);

Sample Code:

WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA fileAttrData = {0};

GetFileAttributesExW(L"C:\\abc.txt, GetFileExInfoStandard, &fileAttrData);

// GetFileAttributesExA for non-unicode

FILETIME ftLastModifiedDate = fileAttrData.ftLastWriteTime;

Reference in This Site:

SYSTEMTIME, FILETIME, and LARGE_INTEGER

What happened to LocalFileTimeToFileTime() / FileTimeToLocalFileTime()?

Reference in MSDN:

GetFileAttributesEx Function