I'm not sure whether this would work on Windows, but in Unix I would use stat.

Update: bart is right, the ctime field of Unix's stat's output is a poor substitute for the time of a file's creation. I don't recall ever needing time of creation for files (I always use the time of last modification), so I overlooked the "creation" part of the OP's question. My apologies. Fortunately, the Windows version of stat (as described in perlport) appears to be more suitable to the OP's goal than the Unix one would have been. So my suggestion turns out to be fortuitously on target.

the lowliest monk

In reply to Re: Reading a directory and getting file dates by tlm
in thread Reading a directory and getting file dates by esolm

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