Since when is LR changing RAW file?

I would appreciate if anyone could explain since what version LR is writing anything into the original RAW file.
I believed that RAW file is never altered, and I liked it like that.
Now, all of a sudden, we learned that LR is changing EXIF time stamp inside the original RAW file. I think that is a big problem. I do not want my RAW files to be altered by LR, not even benign time stamp. The mess with LR 1.4 demonstrates clearly why it is a bad idea to alter RAW files. If LR was altering original RAW files since 1.0, than I have been seriously misled and will certainly abandon LR for CaptureOne. At the moment I use both of them equally.
If CaptureOne alters the RAW files as LR does, then there is no other option but to back up originals before they are even opened and keep three versions of the same image: original RAW, altered RAW and exported and edited JPEG or TIFF.
Please, do not recommend DNG format. I will never use it. I understand that some people may like it, but I am not one of them.
Ivan

If you take an image with the camera date set incorrectly, then you why wouldn't you want write the correct time to the original file. It will save you having to manually correct the time every time you use that original RAW image somewhere else. It's still non-destructive because you can change that time as many times as you like without affecting the actual image data, or degrading image quality. LR also saves the original time (maybe to XMP? not sure about that) and gives you the option to revert back to the original capture time. I don't see any problems with this.
In fact I only found this post because I'm looking for a way to batch 'shift' the time for a number a photos by one year, as the wrong year was set on the camera. To do this in LR I would either have to manually adjust the date for each image. It has been very handy in the past though, when travelling through different time-zones.
I think writing to the RAW file rather than saving the settings in a sidecar file reflects the practical needs of the majority of photographers who are correct the date of capture for a file.

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trshaner wrote:
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