> 
> Hi,
> 
> We're using RMAN and NMO to test backup/recovery of an Oracle test database.
> I notice that when we use an RMAN script to recover data files, or even 
> the control file (we recover that to a different location), they
> all get recovered with the current time (i.e. the time of the recover) 
> and not their original times.
> Recovery of non_Oracle data, however, always preserves the original time 
> stamp.  I'm thinking the time SHOULD change when
> dealing with database files in order to keep things consistent? Maybe 
> this is reasonable and merely a function of Oracle, or is the NMO
> purposely doing this because it knows Oracle will want the current
> time?

Timestamps are associated with a file.  I don't think that information
is stored (or recovered) by RMAN.  Oracle does not require any timestamp
information in the file because it has its own information within the
data.

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