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Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone
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Thomas Moschny |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone |
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Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:02:39 +0200 |
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Stephen Leake wrote:
> Markus Wanner <address@hidden> writes:
> > I'm just proposing to check the date and warn the user if it obviously
> > doesn't match. It would help making that meta-information more reliable,
> > nothing more, nothing less.
>
> If there is no global shared clock, then developers working in
> different time zones can easily commit revisions to a shared server
> that have timestamps using local times that appear to be "out of
> order" with respect to each other.
Monotone stores timestamps in the date certs in UTC, of course. Nevertheless,
clocks for each developer might differ a bit such that commits appear to be
made in non-chronological order.
> Why would you want to warn about that?
So, I don't think we should warn there.
- Thomas
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Thomas Moschny <address@hidden>
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- [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Bruce Stephens, 2008/10/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Ethan Blanton, 2008/10/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Stephen Leake, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone,
Thomas Moschny <=
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Nathaniel Smith, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/24
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/24
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Bruce Stephens, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/24
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/23