date modified

Last change recorded

Date modified is a file attribute showing when a document or file was last changed and saved.

Operating systems and software track this automatically, updating the timestamp whenever content is altered.

Useful for sorting files by recency or identifying the latest version: Sort by date modified to find what you worked on yesterday.

Distinguished from date created and date accessed.

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file timestamp type

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When something was made

creation date · birth date · date added

temporal change status

date modifiedunmodified

Without any changes

unchanged · pristine

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