Getting File Creation Time

I am using web services call to return a database listing of some files that I have in a UNIX file system. The call to web services will give me the subdirectory and file that is maintained in the file system.
For example, my directory: is "/edyts/sblists"
And the listing under the directory contains the subdirectories:
/d08r
/d09r
/d10r
And finally inside of the subdirectories are files:
/d08r/sample.txt (<--this is what my web services call result looks like)
/d09r/sample2.txt
/d10r/sample3.txt
What I want to achieve is: After I make get my list back from my web services call, I want to get the date that the file or directory was created, and then check to see if it is older than 48 hours. What is the best way that I can achieve this?

I love it when people do something which returns information about X and Y, and they want to know what kind of magic someone can perform to get information about Z as well (given only X and Y, and Z is not something which can be calculated from X or Y).

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