Last Modified problems

[Amanda]

Hi, hope you can help me with this one.

If I want to get the date a page has been last modified, I can do something
like ..

document.write( "<b>Last updated: "+document.last Modified+"</b>");

Can I use this to display the date that other pages were last modified - eg
other pages on my website?
I want my index.htm to display the last modified date of other pages on the
website without me manually updating.

Thanks!

[Dr John Stockton]

Re: Last Modified problems

JRS: In article <bdn77t$ba5$1@h ercules.btinter net.com>, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, Amanda <ads1980@hotmai l.com> posted at Sun,
29 Jun 2003 17:22:05 :-
[color=blue]
>If I want to get the date a page has been last modified, I can do something
>like ..
>
>document.write ("<b>Last updated: "+document.last Modified+"</b>");[/color]

If you use that form on the Web, some browsers will display the American
date format, even to users in Europe. So only modify when, in the date,
D=M or D>12. Moreover, the year may be two-digit, and Easterners read
dates with year first.

[color=blue]
>Can I use this to display the date that other pages were last modified - eg
>other pages on my website?
>I want my index.htm to display the last modified date of other pages on the
>website without me manually updating.[/color]

It is in fact not the date that the file was last "really" modified, but
the date of the last upload or change that lastModified contains. It is
IMHO better to use a more subtle scheme, such as editing manually or by
running a local program [+], to record when the last change that the
reader needs to know about was made, and to do so unambiguously - e.g.
2003-06-30 or 2003 Jun 30.

See <URL:http://www.merlyn.demo n.co.uk/js-date3.htm#lM> about
lastModified.

I don't know a way to get the lastModified of another page[*], which
suggests that there may not be a reasonable one.

[+] DOS Batch program up-dates.bat, to be uploaded into directory
<URL:http://www.merlyn.demo n.co.uk/programs/>, uses other programs HUNT,
COLS, EKKO, NOWMINUS in that directory to generate an HTML page
alphabetically listing *.htm files and dates for the current directory.
Possibly to be developed. Currently gives (format adaptable) lines like
<li> 2003/06/19-18:55:50 &#160; <a href="batfiles. htm">BATFILES.H TM</a>
Note : 8.3 filenames ONLY (for LFN, modify to use DOS dir command).
[*] One might be able to load that other page into a frame, and access
its lastModified, but that would require loading the other page in full,
probably largely defeating the object of the exercise.

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