function to find the modification date of the project

[Joe Strout]

James Mills wrote:

> Also I'd like to point out that your method is not
> very reliable as the modification time of those
> files could change at any moment. Consider
> unix systems for instnace where you could do:
> 
> touch *
> 
> And poof, you're modification times are now
> the current time!

Yes, and presumably if some power user did this, then that would be the 
intended effect.  Not sure why they'd do that, but they must have a good 
reason -- who am I to stop them?

Cheers,
- Joe