filemtime Gets file modification time intfilemtime stringfilename Returns the time the file was last modified, or &false; in case of an error. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp, which is suitable for the date function. ¬e.clearstatcache; ¬e.no-remote; This function returns the time when the data blocks of a file were being written to, that is, the time when the content of the file was changed. ]]> See also filectime, stat, touch, and getlastmod.