>I want to save the date (an maybe time) of the last time a User modified data in my app. So in my save procedure I determine if the any field in the record has been changed. Then I save the current date to the to the ldate field in my tables. There also is an fdate field where the default value is date().
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>My question is : is this a kosher way of doing things?

I implement record timestamps with a UDF called from the record validation rule for the table. THen it works when canges are saved through forms, views, browses, whatever.