Is there a built-in method to find when a Template file was last modified? I want something similar to JavaScript's document.lastModified which always seem to return the current timestamp for dynamically generated pages.

For more completeness in case I'm missing something obvious...

I have lots of web pages on a website. They share a common head.tt and foot.tt files. So (typically) 3 Template files and called for each HTTP request: head, body and foot. 'body' will change for each page. I want to be able to put a custom <meta modified="...."> at the head of the page that can be read by a sitemap generator and along with a custom priority indicator. I'd prefer not to have to update the modified time each time a body template file is changed.

I looked at using the Last-modified HTTP header but that is missing for dynamically generated pages.

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