I said I'm no software developer, but if the app itself checked current clock 
locally before uploading content, it could attach the current time to the 
information. That way, assuming all the devices have a valid and reliable time, 
the cloud itself could figure things out automatically.

Thanks

On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Trish Putnam <trish.put...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think you could assume a common clock, since that would require all 
> the devices to be online at the time of change to access the clock.
> 
> On Oct 28, 2012 6:12 AM, "Marc García Martí" <marc.garcia.ma...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm no software developer, but I imagine that if the different clients, or 
> sources of information, shared a common clock, and the cloud server checked 
> that clock, the system itself could resolve the conflicts. just my opinion of 
> course.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Oct 28, 2012, at 2:44 AM, Dwight Arthur <m...@grantsmiths.org> wrote:
> 
>> I've been thinking long and hard about this and I think I've been coming at 
>> it from the wrong angle. I have been studying, when there's a conflict, how 
>> can an algorithm resolve it. The better question, I think, is whether the 
>> conflict can be avoided. The only way to make a conflict is to update a task 
>> on one device and leave that change unsynched for long enough for the user 
>> to get to another device and make a conflicting update. If every platform 
>> synched soon after a local change and also soon after a remote change has 
>> been synched, provided that the sum of the two "soon"s is less than the time 
>> it takes to go to a new device and enter a change, then there will be no 
>> conflict. (Except in abnormal circumstances such as blackout.)
>> 
>> On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:53:50 AM UTC-4, kitus wrote:
>> <...> I was wondering, can't the cloudsync handle conflicting data 
>> autonomously? why do I have to be prompted when the same action has been 
>> updated from different devices? <...>
>> 
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