[hg update] Wrong file date after an update. Is it a bug ?

[Martin Geisler]

Dennis Brakhane <brakhane at googlemail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:48 PM, William Ledoux <william.ledoux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It could be used, for instance, to know immediatly if a file has been
>> changed before an other, or if a file from different clones at different
>> revisions has been changed between these revisions: without using the
>> history.
>
> And what if my system time is set incorrectly, let's say, one day
> behind, and you pull from me? Are my changes older than yours even I
> made them after you did yours?

Not only that -- when people send us patches, the patches contain the
timestamp of the commit. But we often apply patches out of order, and
this make time non-linear.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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