Date and time of a file in Unix in a desired format

Can anyone tell me what is the command to print out file creation TIME and DATE in UNIX? I have searched a lot on Google and got the solution for Linux. But those commands are not working on Sun OS.

Solution

Unix doesn't have a file creation time. It has these:

last modified time (content was modified)
last inode or files status change time (attributes like permissions, number of links etc., were changed)
last access time (content was read)

ls is the best option if you are not feeding the output to a program. man ls is your friend.

ls -lu => show last access time
ls -lc => show last status change time
ls -l  => show last modified time (default)

In general, it is not recommended that we feed the output of ls into a program because of portability concerns. On macOS and Linux systems, we have a stat command to extract file status information.

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