Getting modification date-time of a file with seconds in cmd.exe

Question

I've created a batch which automatically uploads some files to FTP server, if they're modified. And modification is detected by changed file's modification time and size.
But if the modification is made within the same minute, and file size did not change, modification stays undetected, and file is not uploaded.
Is there a way to get exact modification time (including seconds) of a file in a windows batch?

Answer 1

This is a bit of VBScript that might do it for you:

set FSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

if WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 then
    Wscript.Echo "No files specified"
    Wscript.Quit 1
end if

Set File=FSO.GetFile( WScript.Arguments.Item(0))
Date2=File.DateLastModified 
Wscript.Echo date2