[Owncloud] Syncing and Time Synchronization

Klaas Freitag freitag at owncloud.com
Thu Jul 19 11:37:07 UTC 2012


On 19.07.2012 13:09, Jono wrote:

Hi,

> I know we are steering away from using timestamps over the network,
> but is it ok to use it locally? I can see problems with this when the
> user decides to change their system clock, but maybe that is a
> different issue.
As long as both sides or repositories are on exactly the same time or do 
have a constant difference, mtimes are cool. But both is hard to achieve 
if you have network or even internet in between. Its achieveable with 
two local repos however, ie. on the same harddisk.

regards,

Klaas




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