On Thursday 24 February 2005 11:33 pm, Guus Leeuw jr. wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:info-cvs- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David A. Bartmess > > Sent: vendredi 25 février 2005 06:53 > > > > On Thursday 24 February 2005 08:24 am, Jim.Hyslop wrote: > > > rakesh mailgroups wrote: > > > > does anyone know if the repository server having a different time > > > > than local PCs will cause issues with CVS? > > > > > > None whatsoever. CVS was designed to be able to operate with > > > > workstations > > > > > in multiple time zones (unlike, say, Visual Source Safe). All times are > > > converted to UTC before being stored in the repository. > > > > But if a local PC was used to work on files, having a current time at > > checkin > > of 11:30 MDT, and the server at time of checkin is 13:35 EDT, this could > > seriously screw with any automation that relies on the datetime stamp to > > know > > if a build has already included that change (i.e., cruisecontrol). > > Uhm? > > EDT != UTC && MDT != UTC > > *All* CVS Client -> Server and Server -> Client communication is > (virtually) done in UTC. Meaning, as Jim said, local PC uses MDT, talks to > CVS server, and CVS server converts to UTC, and also CVS server uses UTC, > talks to CVS client, and CVS client converts to MDT. The EDT settings of > your server are totally unimportant within the CVS server! > > <proud> > We (as in previous job) used to manage a CVS repo in Germany, and access it > from within the States. No problems in timing *ever* occurred. > </proud>
I was talking about the 5 minute difference in my example, though. Not in the timezone difference. Rakesh asked about a difference in "time". That could have weird consequences, depending on the usage on checkout... -- David A. Bartmess Software Configuration Manager / Sr. Software Developer eDingo Enterprises http://edingo.net _________________________________________________________________ jSyncManager Development Team (http://www.jsyncmanager.org) jSyncManager Email List (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jsyncmanager-devel) But one should not forget that money can buy a bed but not sleep, finery but not beauty, a house but not a home, medicine but not health, luxuries but not culture, sex but not love, and amusements but not happiness. _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs