I know that the app engine servers are synchronized with NTP so that their clocks should be almost perfectly synchronized. Should. But can I rely on that? Are there any mechanisms that decouples a node if its clock gets e.g. more than N seconds out of sync the rest (or some master node)? If so, what is the number N?
In my app I need to receive objects that has changed since last call to the server, and normally I would have used some sequence/serial datatype for that. But such a datatype isn't effective in a distributed environment so I'll try to "hack" the same functionality using a Date instead, and then just "handle it" if the client receives a few already received objects when polling the server. This may happen if the server clocks aren't perfectly in sync. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
