Hi, Marc. There are a number of scenarios in which relying on the latest timestamp does not work. Three that come quickly to mind are (1) Today’s changes to yesterday’s task, (2) you are both right, and (3) trickle down.
Today’s changes to yesterday’s task I have a task that repeats daily. Monday I complete the task and now it shows Tuesday. On Tuesday on my phone I realize I will not be getting to this task until Wednesday, so I complete it twice and now it shows Thursday 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? <...> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/Ust4cQY5HccJ. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
