Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone

[Thomas Moschny]

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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