At 09:57 AM 16/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Hello, all,
>
>One of our customers brought something to our attention the other day that I
>can't explain. He was looking at the "File Modified" time of his database
>file and noticed that the Windows "File Modified" time really didn't
>correspond to anything. The screenscrape he sent to us Monday afternoon
>showed the last modified date as around 1000 hrs on the previous Friday.
>People were in and out of the database all day, so writes would have been
>occurring up until at least 1800 Friday evening (in addition to Monday
>morning).
>
>I've looked at the documentation for IB, and have not found anything that
>tells me when the OS level "File Modified" stamp is changed.
>
>Anyone here know?

It's normal. The *database file* gets opened when the first user logs in,
and is closed when the last user logs out. The datestamp gets updated
then. The OS isn't in control of the database I/O, the server is.

heLen