Perl: Filetime of most recent file ?

[Mutilated1]

thanks guys thats very helpful

do you know if the file modified time on the containing directory will also be the same as the most recently modified file's modified time ?

Just wondering if it would be simpiler to get the modified time from the directory instead ?

so in other words would something like this work ?

open(DIR, $directory);
$modified = localtime((stat DIR)[9]);

just guessing from looking at your code