Location of database file

[Brian Witowski]

Greetings,

I'm new to MySQL, that's why I'm posting in the Newbies forum. I was trying to figure out where my actual databases are stored and I've determined they are in /var/lib/mysql. I can see my database there; it's called "weather". I CD into that dir and there are two files, one is the name of my only table and the other is "db.opt".

I'm reasonably certain these are my database file. However, the modified date for my table shows 4/13/17 at 15:59. And the db.op shows March 28th. The problem is, I've been adding data to that database every ten minutes and I still am. Is this not really my data? My /etc/mysql/my.cnf file is in fact pointing to this location.

I'm running Raspbian Jessie on a Raspberry Pi.

So, my question is, why is the modified date off? I'm a little confused.

Thanks for your help.