pdfGetInfoDate

Parse a document info field as a date.
int pdfGetInfoDate(PDFHandle pdf, char *field, int *year, int *month, int *day, int *hour, int *minute, int *second)
This function retrieves the value of an info field, parsed as a date (in the encoding format defined by the PDF specification).

Returns 1 on success, or 0 if the specified field doesn't exist or couldn't be parsed as a date.

C:
int year, month, day, hour, minute, second; if (pdfGetInfoDate(pdf, "CreationDate", &year, &month, &day, &hour, &minute, &second)) { printf("creation date = %04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n", year, month, day, hour, minute, second); } else { printf("no creation date\n"); }
pdfGetCreationDate
pdfGetModDate