There does not seem to be a sufficient time stamp to indicate when a patron account/record has been modified/updated. The Last Updated time stamp seems to change any time a patron logs in, which completely makes it useless as an indicator as to when a staff member has updated the account information.
That's because the last active date is updated nowadays when the user logs in, also cusing the last modification date to update as it's a timestamp updating automatically with every change of the record.
Correct. Which is problematic for those of us wanting something to reference when the record is actually changed and not just logged in to. Last seen makes sense for the time stamp to be updated when the patron has logged in. But I have not appreciated the last updated being changed for this. This was a bad choice, in my opinion. I wish we could configure what affects this timestamp.
It's a database automatism, so not really a conscious choice to make it so. If we want to change the behavior now, we will have to make Koha change the modification date instead of relying on the database mechanisms.
Which is why this bug is suggesting a modification timestamp.