document.lastModified shows current time 1

[seaport]

I used the following code to test "lastModified" property

alert(document.lastModified);

But it always shows the current time. The web server is IIS on my local Win2000 Pro computer. When I loaded the page to an IIS web server, the same thing happened. Could any one tell me where the problem is?

Thanks in advance.

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[ggriffit]

is the page static HTML or is it created by some kind of server side script such as ASP/Perl/PHP ?

 

[seaport]

It is an ASP page. Actually, even that Js code is generated through an vbscript subroutine when the page is loaded.

In short, the file extension of that page is "asp".

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[tviman]

It's been my experience that when the page exists on your local computer, lastModified always shows the current time. I've never persued it further because it always worked correctly when not on the local machine.

There's always a better way. The fun is trying to find it!

 

[ggriffit]

in that case the last time the actual document was 'created' or 'modified' was when the (ASP) code was executed to create the output file.

You could use the last modified date of the ASP file itself - see

http://www.codeave.com/asp/code.asp?u_log=91

for an example.

 

[seaport]

Thanks ggriffit,

I think I've been going the wrong directly. If the page is ASP, I should have used ASP codes, rather than JS code to achieve my goal.

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