Indeed, a DBPUT/DBGET will always return the records in the order
that they were written.
There are some other issues that you may need to take into consideration...

Other processes are likely accessing that dataset, and may even be adding
to the chain that you are writing.  Depending on your locking strategy,
your program's records will be inserted in chronological order, but may be
interspersed with records from another process!

Consider also that although the records' chains will be in order, the
records may not necessarily be physically next to each other.  IMAGE used
to try and use the DELETE chain - and this is probably still the case - and
again other processes may be deleting and adding records at the same time
that your program is doing its magic.

A simple question with a complex answer. Hm.
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