Ah OK! So, not just theoretical then, people have actually tried to do this. :D
That is cool.
Did/does anyone ever get away with stuff based on very close timings?
David Seeber
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Subject: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: banzai!
On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 18:50 +0000, David Seeber wrote:
> I strenuously object to this notice of negative karma... XD
>
> I would like to extend a warm greeting to all Agorans and hope that
> they have adjusted well to the recent clock changes (if applicable
> {which countries change their clocks, anyway?}) . Was also wondering,
> is there any sort of official time or an office of Timekeeper in
> Agora? Perhaps to establish the correct order of events in moments of
> confusion :)
The Distributor, who has the technical responsibility for ensuring that
public messages get seen by everyone, has been known to dabble with
that from time to time (because the time of an event mostly depends on
when people get to observe it, which the Distributor is in control of).
I think there was once an aborted attempt to change the message headers
to indicate the actual date at which it was distributed. As it is, when
the exact time of an event becomes important, we check various people's
email headers to see the timings involved, and then argue (via CFJ or
otherwise) about which timestamp is the correct one to use.
--
ais523
