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4 Responses to “Find out the last modified date of the web page you are viewing”

1. Wendy Golski // Jan 8, 2008 at 10:16 pm

   works on Firefox… not on Safari

2. David // Jan 12, 2008 at 10:29 am

   Works OK on Firefox but not on IE7

3. AnilVT // Mar 27, 2008 at 3:34 am

   Ryan, this doesn’t work at all. While it does show the date - IMO it’s the date and time when this page was last downloaded on my system; and NOT the real last modified date of the webpage. I tested with a page on my site updated last year, but it shows current date. Does that make sense? Check it for yourself

4. Mr.Rcollins // Mar 27, 2008 at 8:14 am
   I don’t think it works with dynamically generated pages, such as this blog, as a matter of fact! I tried it with wikipedia, and it shows a date modified of March 25th for the entry on volcano, but the history shows a date of the last modification as of March 22.

   That link uses javascript to get the last modified, I guess I’ll need to research into where exactly that date comes from.