didn't suprisingly find any udf, which would do that, so made my own.
it does not handle day change at all.

code:
$file=right(getfiletime("testi.txt"),8)
$time=@time
? "$file - $time"

$file=3600*val(left($file,2))+60*val(substr($file,4,2))+val(right($file,2))
$time=3600*val(left($time,2))+60*val(substr($time,4,2))+val(right($time,2))

$fileage=$time-$file
"file age in seconds:"
?$fileage
if $fileage>300
?"so, it's older than 5 minutes..."
else
? "it's pretty fresh file, less than 5 minutes."
endif

hope it helps

Lonkero
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