[Owncloud] Syncing and Time Synchronization

[Brad McEvoy]

I think the suggestion was to use timestamps locally just to determine 
whether a local change has occured, and not the order of changes 
relative to the server, which would be cool.

However, that approach still misses the point of state token based sync. 
The idea is to maintain a tree of directory hashes, and to perform 
syncronisation simply by walking the tree from the root. When a 
directory hash on the client is the same as the server you know 
everything under it is perfectly identical, which makes timestamps 
irrelevant.

On 19/07/12 23:37, Klaas Freitag wrote:
> 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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