Metadata.modificationTime

Non-standard: This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.

The read-only modificationTime property of the Metadata interface is a Date object which specifies the date and time the file system entry (or the data referenced by the entry) was last modified. A file system entry is considered to have been modified if the metadata or the contents of the referenced file (or directory, or whatever other kind of file system entry might exist on the platform in use) has changed.

Syntax

var modificationTime = Metadata.modificationTime;

Value

A Date timestamp indicating when the file system entry was last changed.

Example

This example tries to get a particular working file at tmp/workfile.json. Once that file has been found, its metadata is obtained and the file's modification timestamp year is compared to the current year. If it was last modified in a year at least five prior to the current year, the file is removed and a new one is created.

workingDirectory.getFile("tmp/workfile.json", { create: true }, function(fileEntry) {
  fileEntry.getMetadata(function(metadata) {
    if ((new Date().getFullYear() - metadata.modificationTime.getFullYear()) >= 5) {
      fileEntry.remove(function() {
        workingDirectory.getFile("tmp/workfile.json", { create: true }, function(newEntry) {
          fileEntry = newEntry;
        });
      });
    }
  });
}, handleError);

Specifications

This API has no official W3C or WHATWG specification.

Browser compatibility

	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	WebView Android	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet
`modificationTime`	13	≤79	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes