ModDate
ModDate, short for modification date, is a timestamp associated with an item to indicate when it was last changed. The term is used across computing domains, including file systems, databases, and web resources, and is often synonymous with the last modified date or modification time.
In file systems, the modification time (mtime) records when a file’s content last changed. When the content
In software development and data management, APIs expose access to ModDate. For example, programming languages provide
In web contexts, servers may expose a Last-Modified header that communicates the ModDate of a resource. Clients
Reliability considerations include clock synchronization, timestamp resolution, and differences among file systems or data formats. Some