# love.filesystem.getLastModified

Available since LÖVE 0.7.1
This function is not supported in earlier versions.

Gets the last modification time of a file.

## Function

### Synopsis

    modtime, errormsg = love.filesystem.getLastModified( filename )

### Arguments

`string filename`
  The path and name to a file.

### Returns

`number modtime`
  The last modification time in seconds since the unix epoch or nil on failure.
`string errormsg`
  The error message on failure.

## Examples

### Getting the time of a file and printing it as a date.

    modtime, errormsg = love.filesystem.getLastModified("file.dat")

    if modtime then
    	print(os.date("%c", modtime)) -- "02/15/2011 12:32:11" (Depends on the system and locale)
    end

## See Also

- love.filesystem

##

Category:

- Functions