Detect file creation date on iPhone OS?

Question

I was planning on writing some code whose logic was based upon testing the creation date of a particular file in my app's Documents folder. Turns out, when I call -[NSFileManager attributesOfItemAtPath:error:], NSFileCreationDate isn't one of the provided attributes.

Is there no way to discover a file's creation date?

Thanks.

Answer 1

According to Apple's reference, NSFileCreationDate is available in 2.0+:

NSFileCreationDate The key in a file attribute dictionary whose value indicates the file's creation date.

The corresponding value is an NSDate object.

Available in iPhone OS 2.0 and later.

Declared in NSFileManager.h.