What are the potential pitfalls of using filectime() on Windows systems in PHP?

Using filectime() on Windows systems in PHP may return the creation time of a file rather than the time of the last change. This can be misleading if you are expecting the last modification time. To accurately retrieve the last modification time on Windows systems, you can use the filemtime() function instead. 

$file = 'example.txt';

// Get the last modification time of the file
$lastModifiedTime = filemtime($file);

echo "Last modified time: " . date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $lastModifiedTime);

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