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

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/12/3 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Maybe something can be done in user space, as a Sugar setting with a
time delta to be added to the real time of the system?  The delta
could be set in the control panel, to solve #3829 .  Anyway, sounds
tricky.

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