diff --git a/change_log.txt b/change_log.txt
index c0212b3c..5e47dab4 100644
--- a/change_log.txt
+++ b/change_log.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 - Renamed a couple of internal classes
 - code cleanup for merging compiled templates
 - couple of runtime optimizations (still not all done)
+- update of getCachedTimestamp()
 
 12/19/2009
 - bugfix on comment lines in config files
diff --git a/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_cacheresource_file.php b/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_cacheresource_file.php
index d4d9baf7..a76cb50f 100644
--- a/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_cacheresource_file.php
+++ b/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_cacheresource_file.php
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ class Smarty_Internal_CacheResource_File {
     */
     public function getCachedTimestamp($template)
     {
-        return @filemtime($template->getCachedFilepath()); 
-        // return ($template->getCachedFilepath() && file_exists($template->getCachedFilepath())) ? filemtime($template->getCachedFilepath()) : false ;
+        //return @filemtime($template->getCachedFilepath()); 
+        return ($template->getCachedFilepath() && file_exists($template->getCachedFilepath())) ? filemtime($template->getCachedFilepath()) : false ;
     } 
 
     /**