Specifications

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DWfile.getModificationDate()
Availability
Dreamweaver 2
Description
Gets the time when the file was last modified.
Arguments
fileURL
The argument, which is expressed as a file:// URL, is the file for which you are checking the last
modified time.
Returns
A string that contains a hexadecimal number that represents the number of time units that have
elapsed since some base time. The exact meaning of time units and base time is
platform-dependent; in Windows, for example, a time unit is 100ns, and the base time is
January 1st, 1600.
Example
It’s useful to call the function twice and compare the return values because the value that this
function returns is platform-dependent and is not a recognizable date and time. For example, the
following code gets the modification dates of file1.txt and file2.txt and displays an alert box that
indicates which file is newer.
var file1 = "file:///c|/temp/file1.txt";
var file2 = "file:///c|/temp/file2.txt";
var time1 = DWfile.getModificationDate(file1);
var time2 = DWfile.getModificationDate(file2);
if (time1 == time2){
alert("file1 and file2 were saved at the same time");
}else if (time1 < time2){
alert("file1 older that file2");
}else{
alert("file1 is newer than file2");
}
DWfile.getCreationDate()
Availability
Dreamweaver 4
Description
Gets the time that the file was created.
Arguments
fileURL
The argument, which is expressed as a file:// URL, is the file for which you are checking the
creation time.