By the way, by far the most common support request I have at my pool is
> users withdrawing coins and not seeing it in their wallet because it's
> not up-to-date with the block chain. Might be worth adding something in
> the bitcoin-qt GUI to make it more obvious that users can't see new
> transactions and why.
>
For 0.7 we've added a red "(out of sync)" warning to the balances when the
block chain is out of date.
However, due to the design of the protocol there is a large variance in
block timings, and it is not possible to determine up-to-date status with
certainty, so quite a large safety margin is used. To be precise the
warning is shown when the last received block was generated more than 90
minutes ago.
Wladimir
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