Hallöchen! Tobias Ellinghaus writes:
> Am Sonntag, 6. Januar 2013, 19:50:01 schrub Torsten Bronger: > > [...] > >> 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. I remember such problems, too, but for me, such trouble was long ago (i.e. many years). Luckily. > [...] > >> (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. But you can lose data right now with the current workflow. You just have to use e.g. a laptop as a secondary image-processing system. Then, you have to work very carefully or lose data. Even worse, if you haven't already experienced how DT works, you will lose data for sure in this case. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger Jabber ID: [email protected] or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
