This patch changes the Page.editTime function in order to allow the user to request a valid editTime even if the page has not yet been fetched. The API call used is theoretically much lighter than retrieving the whole page. The default behavior remains unchanged.
forceEditTime.patch
As a performance optimization, line 1256 could read
if force and not self._editTime:
However, I wrote the patch without checking if the editTime has been fetched because "force" should imply that the value is updated