Why is the date of my last iphone backup in itunes not updating?

I plug in my iphone 4S at night and it goes through the process of backing it up and syncing my apps, which appears to be progressing normally. However the date showing for my last backup hasn't changed since the beginning of Feb.
Does anyone know why? I have this terrible feeling that my backup isn't getting updated, but the apple software isn't smart enough to tell me that it failed.
Thanks,
Bill
PS - all of my software, itunes and the OS on the phone are all up to date. (v 6.1.3)

I get the same problem. I moved the backup files (B1) to another drive and then itunes generated new backup files (B2) for my iPhone. They seem to be of similar size. Due to my running out of space on my system drive, I've linked the backup folder to another drive. This is where I moved my original backups (B1). After I did that, the iPhone seems to sync but once again, the date of the backup did not change. I have no idea what the issue is. I'll save both B1 and B2.
To be sure you've got an up to date backup, I recommend changing the name of the original backup folder to backup2 and then forcing itunes to make a new backup from scratch.
On a windows machine, the backup folder is found at:
C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

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