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Copy/Move an object from another person, what to do with createdBy/On and modifiedBy/On

If you copy or move an object that somebody else created, what should you do with the createdBy, createdOn, modifiedBy and modifiedOn?

With move, I would change the modifiedBy and modifiedOn.

With copy, I would change both the createdBy/createdOn and modifiedBy/modifiedOn.

Is this correct?

In my example the data gets persisted to a database, but I guess that doesn't matter.

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This is really more of a business issue.

I really cannot say what's right or wrong.

o.k.w  2009-11-26 09:36:40
In Vista it's really bad. Date created changes when you copy a file, date modified remains the same. As a result, the date modified is older than the date created...
Lieven Cardoen  2009-11-26 09:43:00

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