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Yehuda Shiran November 13, 2000
Probing the Last Modified Date
Tips: October 2000

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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To find out a file's last modified date, use the DateLastModified property of the File object. Here is a piece of script that will print the file's last modified date:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
  myActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
  file = myActiveXObject.GetFile("c:\\test.txt");
  alert(file.DateLastModified);
// -->
</SCRIPT>

You will get an alert box like this:


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