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What needs to be "solved"?  The database close sets the "Last source
update date/time" when the source was [or inconclusively may have been]
updated.  Because features of the
[pre]compilers\linker\binder\debuggers\interpreters depend heavily on
the value maintained by the DB, there was [and presumably is still] no
external user interface to change the value.

We've changed the way we mark our code changes which required updating
comment lines in the source members to initialize them for the new
method.

But changing the source programatically updated the last change date
of the source. We do not want to recompile but it would be nice to
retain the last changed date on the source members from when the
program was actually last changed (not comments).

  Why would there be any requirement to change the value to something
which is not a reflection of reality?  And if the values are changed
[esp. if not by QDBCLOSE], then be sure to understand the consequences
if not also\afterward effecting necessary recompile et al.

Yes, we understand that it will put the source out of alignment with
the actual objects - this is not of too much concern for now.

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