Formatting the return value of: File(myFile).lastModified()

Question

I'm checking file date and time stamps:
myDate = File(myFile).lastModified()Is there a way to format the return value?
myDate equals: 1205166439145I'd like to see something like:
03/10/2008  12:27 PMI'm using the following code to print the value:
System.out.println(myDate);

Answer 1

Awesome! I really, really appreciate the help and the sample code!
Successful Output:
K:\COMMON\ITS\STEVEB\java\CompareFileDates>java CompareFileDates
execution continuing...
test1.steve (3/10/08 12:27 PM) is older than test2.steve (3/10/08 1:33 PM)Error free code:
import java.io.File;
import java.lang.Object;
import java.util.Date;
import java.text.Format;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
public class CompareFileDates {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String file1_stat = null;
    String file2_stat = null;
    String file1 = "test1.steve";
    String file2 = "test2.steve";
    long date1 = 0;
    long date2 = 0;
    String finalDate1 = null;
    String finalDate2 = null;
    boolean file1Exists = (new File(file1)).exists();
    if (file1Exists) {
        // File or directory exists
        file1_stat = "does exist";
        // Get the timestamp from file 1 and format it
        date1 = (new File(file1)).lastModified();
     Date newDate1 = new Date(date1);
     DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat();
     finalDate1 = df.format(newDate1);
     //System.out.println(file1 + " date: " + finalDate1);
    else {
        // File or directory does not exist
        file1_stat = "does not exist";
    boolean file2Exists = (new File(file2)).exists();
    if (file2Exists) {
        // File or directory exists
        file2_stat = "does exist";
        // Get the timestamp from file 2 and format it
        date2 = (new File(file2)).lastModified();
     Date newDate2 = new Date(date2);
     DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat();
     finalDate2 = df.format(newDate2);
     //System.out.println(file2 + " date: " + finalDate2);
    else {
        // File or directory does not exist
        file2_stat = "does not exist";
    if ((file1Exists == false) || (file2Exists == false)) {
            System.out.println("aborting program...");
    else { 
       System.out.println("execution continuing...");
       String relation;
       if (date1 == date2)
         relation = "the same age as";
       else if (date1 < date2)
         relation = "older than";
       else
         relation = "newer than";
       System.out.println(file1 + " (" + finalDate1 + ")" + " is " + relation + ' ' + file2 + " (" + finalDate2 + ")");
}