Re: [google-appengine] Re: GAE time sync across instances

2016-07-29 Thread 'Nick (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App Engine
As usual, Alex is intervening with some very interesting and relevant truth! Thanks for pointing that out, I had an inkling that financial applications might be concerned, but no idea the depths it went to. Now after checking out the links I can see of course it would be relevant in that

Re: [google-appengine] Re: GAE time sync across instances

2016-07-29 Thread 'Alex Martelli' via Google App Engine
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:51 AM, 'Nick (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App Engine wrote: > Hey Sam, > > Thanks for your patience. I can now report based on my investigation of > the matter: > > 1. There aren't any guarantees for time synchronization for

[google-appengine] Re: GAE time sync across instances

2016-07-29 Thread 'Nick (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App Engine
Hey Sam, Thanks for your patience. I can now report based on my investigation of the matter: 1. There aren't any guarantees for time synchronization for App Engine, and this is reflected in the material in the docs. In general, there should only be a few milliseconds of drift at the most,

[google-appengine] Re: GAE time sync across instances

2016-07-25 Thread 'Nick (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App Engine
Hey Sam, As the old threads on this topic did not yield a particularly decisive answer, I will see if I can manage to produce such a more decisive answer, or to see about getting this into the documentation. I can't make any promises other than that I will report back to this thread with any