A quick search of the issue queue would have found these two issues (and one or two duplicates). The short answer is this was done intentionally late in the D6 release cycle to fix another bug and backported to D5.<br><br>
<a href="http://drupal.org/node/171117">http://drupal.org/node/171117</a><br><a href="http://drupal.org/node/202909">http://drupal.org/node/202909</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Earnie Boyd <<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In testing my changes for the advuser module (D-5) I notice that if I as administrator edit a user, then the Last Access column changes from Never to just a few seconds ago for that user. How important would a patch to resolve this be? I'm willing to chase it if there is enough interest.<br>
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