What is the 'Type' of DateCreated attribute of file object?

I want to convert the 'DateCreated' value of a file into YYMMDD format. can anyone help which 'type' is this DateCreated object is? The MSDN says "Returns the date and time that the specified file or folder 开发者_运维技巧was created. Read-only."

I have the following code

var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); file = fso.GetFile("c:\abc\abc.txt"); var dt = file.DateCreated();

==> The value of dt will be shown as 2/10/2011 7:18:18 AM. But I need in YYMMDD format. I tried using substring function like

var s = dt.substring(0, dt.indexOf("")); but this is throwing 'object expected' error.

tried converting dt into string as dt.toString() but again the 'object expected' error.

can anyone help how do I convert into YYMMDD format?

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var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var file = fso.GetFile("c:\abc\abc.txt");
var dt = new Date(file.DateCreated);

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Try out the example on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ke6a7czx(v=vs.85).aspx to get the datetime. Then use split() more as one (because I cannot deal with regular expressions^^).

• Seperate the date and the timestamp width '.split()'
• Use the first array item and seperate the rest of the string, also with '.split()' use "\/" to mask the slash.
• Reorder the array fields for your own by concating to a string.

Ok it seems yery complicated, but it works.

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I have just spent the past 6 hours dealing with this problem in javascript, so I thought I'd add my 2 cents:

I have been using Scripting.FileSystemObject to browse a file system and return a dateCreated. Am then passing that value as a param to a function that converts the date to another format.

within the helper function, I am using javascript date method such as getFullYear() to construct the new date from the param.

I Have constantly been getting "Object Expected". Turns out that the type returned by dateCreated is not the same as a javascript Date object.

For instance, if I apply the typeOf method to the DateCreated object I get "date". However, when I get the typeOf a javascript date I get "Date" (notice the capitalisation).