[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Absolute time in the journal

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think this is a good, but hard one.  It makes sense to display
> absolute time when the entries are sorted by creation time. But James
> has two valid points.
>
> 2013/12/2 James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>:
>> This exposes a reliance on the absolute time stored in the systems'
>> real time clocks.
>>
>> The cascaded design decisions should include:
>>
>> 1.  provide date and time setting in control panel, #3829,
>>
>> 2.  allow a deployment to disable the date and time setting, as they may
>> maintain the real time clock for date limited lease signatures.
>
> Yes, those are needed before going with this, and may not be obvious.
> I often forgot that:
>
> - some deployments disable the "date" command
> - most times the XOs date and time are incorrect

Not sure what we can do about that.

>
> About the implementation,
>
> - absolute time should be displayed only if the sorting is by creation
> time (a quick look tells me that the patch changes it without a
> conditional)

I think it is OK. The choice of which time field to use is made elsewhere.

>
> - I think that the absolute time should be displayed in the
> appropriate representation of the current locale.  So I would do:
>
> absolute_datetime.strftime('%c')
>
> instead of:
>
> absolute_datetime.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
>

+1

>
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