Get date of last update outside of loop

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I’m trying to figure out how to display the date that a post was last updated outside of the loop. I’m able to display the published date using get_the_time() but there doesn’t seem to be a “loopless” function to get the date of the last update.

Does anyone know hot to do this?

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It is unclear if you are looking for the last updated post or for the last updated date for some particular post. The answer by @PatJ assumes the former. To do the latter:

$qry = new WP_Query(array('p'=>1));
var_dump($qry->posts[0]->post_modified);

Or…

$date = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_modified FROM {$wpdb->posts} WHERE ID = 1");
var_dump($date);

Of course you need to change the post ID to match the post you are looking for.

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