Am Sonntag, 6. Januar 2013, 19:50:01 schrub Torsten Bronger:
> Hallöchen!
> 
> Sorry, I hit the wrong button in my mail program.  I sent bogus
> copies of this posting around.
> 
> Tobias Ellinghaus writes:
> > [...]
> > 
> > The only problem is that it wouldn't work, because, contrary to
> > your assumption, time stamps are totally unreliable. For one you
> > can't be sure that two computers have clocks running in sync.
> 
> Yes but a couple of seconds don't do any harm.  Additionally, you
> can detect that DB and XMP are in-sync reliably in any case.

We are not talking about seconds but minutes, hours, maybe even days or years. 
I remember when I still used Windows that my system clock was set to UTC but 
Windows insisted that it's using local time so it changed that every time I 
booted into Windows. When booting back into Linux I had to change my system 
time. Not fun and a constant cause of broken timestamps.

[...]

> (Maybe it is also a matter of perspective: You are a developer with
> accurate insight into what the DB is and how it works.  But for me,
> library.db is a strange black box.  Instead, "my picture" is the
> RAW+XMP.  ;-)

The perspective of us developers is that we have to rule out the possibility 
that you lose your data. I don't want to be the one who explains why all the 
recent changes got lost just because the system clock was wrong.

As I already said, I am not against something like that, it just has to be 
sure that nothing can break. And ignoring external changes is always a safe 
way. Not a good way, but a safe one.

> Tschö,
> Torsten.

Tobias

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