DataMapper ORM v1.8.2

[eluser]North2Alaska[/eluser]
[quote author="WanWizard" date="1332098105"]On new records the updated field isn't modified, as there haven't been any updates yet.[/quote]

This is an ongoing battle in my 30 year career. Do you consider a new record as updated as well? Some camps take your position, that nothing has been updated, so no. Others take the position that it was an empty record before but was updated (by doing the insert) and as such, the update date should be recorded as well. I'm of this second camp.

The other justification is when doing a query to get all the records that have changed or created in a given period, it makes the queries simpler because you only have to query the update date. If it becomes significant when the record was created, (which it usually is not) then you can either compare the two or query the create date directly.

So, I'm going to use your suggestion above and overload the save function to handle my point of view. Maybe another config variable is in order. If you would like I could put together the code...