How to display 'last updated' date?

Anyone? I'm looking for the same thing.

This is exactly what I'm looking for...anyone?

It might be easier to use the views module to create a block to display that info. Using the default "tracker" view, set it to create a block, display the block as a list, only display 1 node, and remove all of the fields except the date created. This should give a listing of just the creation date of the most recently added content.

Last updated <?php print strftime( "%d.%m.%Y", $node->changed)?>

This is the way I solved this. It may seem quite obvious to old-hands but it took me a while to work it out so I thought I'd share.

I first tried:

print strftime( "%m-%d-%Y", $node->changed)

It worked okay except my host's server time is set to GMT which, over here in Australia, threw the dates out.

I needed a better solution. Here's how I did it - step-by-step.

1. In Site building > Themes > Configure look at the 'Display post information on' box on the right and check the content types you want date updated applied to.

2. Make sure you have a copy of node.tpl.php in your theme directory. You can edit this file to place the print $submitted declaration wherever you want on the page.

I wanted it at the bottom of the page, below the content, so placed the declaration at the bottom of the file.

3. Make sure you have a copy of template.php in your theme directory. Add the code provided at http://drupal.org/node/511642 to the file.

If the phptemplate_node_submitted function is already declared in the file you will either have to delete or comment this existing declaration out.

4. Edit the code provided at http://drupal.org/node/511642 to customise the date modified output.

I wanted a stripped-down output so used this:

function phptemplate_node_submitted($node) {

  $time_unit = 86400; // number of seconds in 1 day => 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds
  $threshold = 1;

  if ($node->changed && (round(($node->changed - $node->created) / $time_unit) > $threshold)){ // difference between created and changed times > than threshold
    return t('@changed', array(
      '@changed' => format_date($node->changed, 'custom' , 'l, d F Y'),
//      '!username' => theme('username', $node),
//      '@created' => format_date($node->created, 'small'),
    ));
  }
  else{
    return t('@datetime', array(
//        '!username' => theme('username', $node),
        '@datetime' => format_date($node->created, 'custom' , 'l, d F Y'),
      ));
  }
}

That's it.

Works well and the dates reflect local time as defined in the Drupal set-up.

Cheers

In drupal 7 you can just add the following in node.tpl.php instead of the default $submitted value. I moved mine to underneath the main content.

  if ($submitted) { 
         echo 'This page was last modified on ' . date( "F j, Y",$node->changed);  
} ; 

Another very simple way to do this without creating any code is to create a view that grabs the updated timestamp of a node that is captured using the contextual filter and throwing the output into a block view.

This way the view dynamically grabs the last update timestamp from the active node and renders the block. Output the block at the bottom of your content.

Simple!

You can display a node's last updated date by adding a small code snippet in your theme's page.tpl.php. Though $node is available on every node display, You can check this by using dsm($node), provided you have 'devel' installed.
In this $node->changed will give Unix timestamp for last updated date of particular node. Display this "$node->changed" at a place of your choice in page.tpl.php by formatting it in any date format.
e.g. $date = date('d-M-Y', $node->changed); print $date;

You can display a node's last updated date by adding a small code snippet in your theme's page.tpl.php. Though $node is available on every node display, You can check this by using dsm($node), provided you have 'devel' installed.
In this $node->changed will give Unix timestamp for last updated date of particular node. Display this "$node->changed" at a place of your choice in page.tpl.php by formatting it in any date format.
e.g. $date = date('d-M-Y', $node->changed); print $date;

I've written a sandbox module that does that for D7.
Please see here.
It just creates a block with the comment "Last updated: @some_date" that you can place in your page.

I needed that for myself and couldn't believe that noone has written that... ;-)

Did I miss something? This seems simple. The following worked for me, placed at the bottom of node.tpl.php:

<?php print "<br><font size=-2>Date last changed " . date("M jS, Y @ H:i:s T",$node->changed) . "</font></br>"; ?>

Here my module for Drupal 7 to add the last update date.

Is there a way of making the [site:last-updated] value available as a token, that could then be used in conjunction with the "Token Filter" module ?
(note, I'm referring to the last time the site was updated, not the current node or a comment)

This code produces a variable that can be used however you fancy that will show the last time any node was updated.

In your sites > all > themes > [theme name] folder, open "template.php"
(create the file if it doesn't already exist)

In that file, paste this code (changing the theme name to your own !)

<?php
function [your_theme_name]_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
  
    $query = db_select('node', 'n');  
    $query->condition('status', 1);
    $query->addExpression("MAX(n.changed)");
    $max= $query->execute()->fetchField();
    $maxdate = date('d.m.Y',$max);

    dpm($maxdate, "MaxDate");

As you can see, I've got the "devel" module installed, allowing me to use the "dpm" command just to display on the page that my code is working.

I hope that helps

I am also looking for the same things as you. Perhaps no one wants to share

nm

@Nasi - the code that I supplied tells you the last time any node was updated. Is that not close enough for your requirements ?