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

[Daniel Narvaez]

Are relative times really that much of a problem? It feels like a lot of
trouble for just these to me...

On Tuesday, 3 December 2013, Manuel Quiñones wrote:

> 2013/12/3 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com <javascript:;>>:
> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org<javascript:;>>
> 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 <javascript:;>>:
> >>> 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.
>
> --
> .. manuq ..
>


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Daniel Narvaez
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