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document.lastModified gives wrong result. How to fix?

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voscon
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using javascript's document.write(document.lastModified works when testing on the computer, but gives the current date when coming from the Web, so clients get the wrong (current) date. Is there a solution?

(using Windows7)

using javascript's document.write(document.lastModified works when testing on the computer, but gives the current date when coming from the Web, so clients get the wrong (current) date. Is there a solution? (using Windows7)

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the-edmeister
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Example URL of what you are referring to?

Any chance the website is using side-server scripting?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_scripting

voscon
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Dear Edmeister, Yes, the server-side scripting seems to be the problem, but what is the solution? Asking the server did not help. Nor did a call to a *.js file, same result. Here some more detail, copied at about the same time to show the problem:

The code: 

document.write("This page was last edited on " + document.lastModified)

file:///C:/Web-page-design/programBits/acknows.html This page was last edited on 06/17/2013 19:03:00

http://voscon.webs.com/acknows.html This page was last edited on 06/22/2013 01:31:01 (= the current date, NOT the updated one 06/17/2013 19:03:00 as above.)

Thanks for your reply and help so far.