I agree. I would use the update time from the last contact entry. but still
I need to find a place in google to store this timestamp and I prefer at
group level. any suggestion?

On 13 April 2012 10:08, Alain Vongsouvanh <[email protected]> wrote:

> For the "provided time", I would recommend using the contact's "updated"
> time that you get back from the API after an update (or insert).
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Tony <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> I don't know how you decide the value for "provided time", knowing
>> there's random delay in updating contacts. And that's why I prefer
>> update the group after all operation are done. It's easy for me find
>> new/changed contacts when I know when was the last sync time(the
>> update time for the group).
>>
>>
>> On Apr 13, 6:06 am, Alain Vongsouvanh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > It is not possible to update System groups. You can however use the
>> > "group=<GROUP_ATOM_ID>" and "updated-min" query parameters to retrieve
>> > contacts belonging to the targeted group that have been updated since
>> the
>> > provided time.
>> > More information about query parameters can be found here:
>> >  https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/reference#Param.
>> ..
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Alain
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Tony <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > I would like to make some change to the "My Contacts" system group, so
>> > > the updated time for the group will be refreshed.  The updated time
>> > > then can be used to find any changed contact entry after the sync.
>> >
>> > > For a custom group, I could add a extended property then update the
>> > > group, the updated time will be freshed. But this doesn't work for
>> > > system group?
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