use the ls command w/ the -latr swithchs will give the list of files from oldest to newst modified.
Code:
#man ls
-t Sort by time stamp (latest first) instead of by
name. The default is the last modification time.
(See -u and -c.)
-u Use time of last access instead of last modifica-
tion for sorting (with the -t option) or printing
(with the -l option).