hi
Got a real block on that one.
I managed that so far with files I'm the only one editing,
by keeping a log of that attribute, but that's very limited as you can imagine.

How can I (really) check when a file was last modified ?
Is there a simple direct way, or do I need some modules (which) to do that ?
Is that considered meta-data ?

Thank you very much for any assistance.

Update:
Thank you both very much :-] (Question: Resolved)
I will try all suggested methods eventually,
but for now I liked the simplicity of -M more than all.
I've implemented it as
$initTimeInSec - ((-M $filePath) * 24 * 60 * 60))
it works gr8, with a possible error of up to 1 second (good enough for me ^^).

Thx again

In reply to How can I tell when a file was last modified by palkia

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