I think you're right. I'm just not seeing something.
Let me put this into an example.
I have a macro that performs an action on a series of items, all with serial numbers. When the action is complete, a folder is named after that serial number. Inside that folder, a text file is also named after the serial number. Inside the text file, I am placing a date/time stamp.
For example:
Serial number 10001
folder created: 10001
file created: 10001.txt
contents of file: 05/10/2010 11:20:45 AM
My macro then goes through all the serial numbers and a large series of these folders/files exist.
The NEXT time the macro processes the SAME serial number, 10001, another time stamp is appended, and the contents of the file 10001.txt are as follows:
05/10/2010 11:20:45 AM, 05/11/2010 11:01:20 AM
My processing macro will act differently if the CURRENT date is less than 30 days later than the LAST PROCESSED date in the text file.
So basically, I always want to compare my current date against the FINAL value of the text file.