From: Hank Date: March 31 2006 1:59pm Subject: Re: TIMESTAMP field not automatically updating last_updated field List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/196365 Message-Id: <1990a96b0603310559g49a63d39v10f110ee099e45a7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Are the other fields in the update statement actually changing the data? I don't know for sure, but if the data on disk is the same as the update statement, mysql won't actually update the record, and therefore might not update the last_updated field also. Just a thought.