file.modified

Syntax file.modified (path)
Params path is a legal path name to the file or folder whose most recent modification date you wish to determine.
Action Determines when the file was most recently changed.
Returns The date the file was last modified.
Examples file.modified ("C:\\Program Files\\Frontier\\sample.txt")

   » "12/9/97; 4:07:54 PM"

number (file.modified ("C:\\Program Files\\Frontier\\sample.txt"))

   » -1330438822


file.modified ("System:System Folder:System")

   » 8/13/91; 7:13 AM.

number (clock.now () - file.modified ("System:System Folder:System"))

   » 19857 // Number of seconds since the file was modified
Notes If you ask Frontier to display the return value from this verb as a number, it returns the number of seconds after midnight, January 1, 1904, that elapsed before the file's last modification date.
See Also file.created

file.setModified

file.setCreated

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