Robert McKenzie wrote in message <5740@palm-dev-forum>...
>
>But watching the backup date on DatebookDB puts
>me hostage to the behavior of datcn, any of its potential
>replacements, and/or the hotsync manager. That is to
>say, does the backup date NECESSARILY change with
>any sync that writes to a database?? Or does it only
>change if the conduit doing the modification tells it
>to change? Looking in the Palm OS 3.0 sources, the
>only changes to the backup date in DataMgr.c are done
>by the DmSetDatabaseInfo() routine. Looking in the
>Sync Manager API documentation I find no reference to
>a database's backup date. This leads me to conjecture
>that the Hotsync manager resets the backup date automatically,
>but this is merely conjecture. Anyone know?
>
Sorry, I don't -know- ... but I am pretty certain that if some
future conduit doesn't maintain somehow the last-backed-up-dates
it would be a bug in that conduit, not a feature.
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