Darren Dunham wrote:

>>We recently restored a bunch of Oracle logs as a test and found
>>that some had the current time of the restore as opposed to their
>>creation date.  Is this normal?
>>
> 
> What OS/filesystem do you mean, and which timestamp are you talking
> about?
> 
> UNIX systems generally have 3 timestamps, none of which are are a
> creation date, each of which are viewable by 'ls' with appropriate
> options.
> 
> My understanding is that Oracle in general ignores timestamps.  It has
> it's own serialized counters within the files for consistency.  If the
> timestamps don't cause problems for your own procedures, I don't think
> oracle will mind.

Sorry,
It's Tru64 5.1B UNIX.  The timestamp I'm referring to is lats modified
time.  I restored the logs, most of which restore with the last modified
time of 9am or so.  Some of them restored with 6pm time.. the time of
the restore.

-- 
Dan