Hi,

A user (Anthony Veale) had a problem with documents not retaining
history when he wrote them direct to the CF card. After some debugging
we have now found out that the problem is related to the fact that
PalmOS don't understand UTC. 

The Plucker documents get a timestamp on the desktop system that takes
the UTC into account, but when the same timestamp is read on the Palm
device it will "lose" the UTC offset. My documents will be 2 hours in
the past, while a documet created e.g. in USA will be in the future.
The latter will be a problem, since the meta database will compare the
date it was created with the date for the associated document and if
it finds the date on the Plucker document to be newer it will handle
that like if a new version of the document has been installed, i.e.
it will remove itself.

When the document has "aged" beyond your timezone it will start to
retain history again ;-)

This problem will not occur when you hotsync the document to the 
device, since it then get a new timestamp from the current time
on the Palm.

I have fixed this problem by setting the date for the meta database 
to the same date as the associated Plucker document. As soon as the
CVS server is online again will add it to CVS.

/Mike

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