[Owncloud] Hate to say it but . . .

[Gwenael Luneau]

Le 27/04/2013 04:50, Qingping Hou a écrit :
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Klaas Freitag <freitag at owncloud.com> wrote:
>> What the client does in that case is to check if the file has still the same
>> mtime local and remote. If it has, the files are considered the same. If
>> not, a conflict file is generated. Unfortunately, two computers often have a
>> time offset between each other. That is still not much of a problem, BUT if
>> that time difference is not constant over time, it becomes more likely that
>> wrong conflicts are generated. So a good hint is to keep times of all
>> involved machines accurate by using ntp.
>>
>
> I see, thanks for the explanation :)
>
> As Michael have pointed out above, I think it will be better to have a time sync
> feature between client and oc server. It's ok for geeks to configure ntp
> themselves, but that will make oc client not work out of box for non-geek users.
>
> Or maybe have an alarm message popup when clients detects that they are out of
> sync with OC server? Then users can adjust their system time accordingly.

would not it be better that the OC client manages itself away time and 
take it into account automatically?


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