[ZODB-Dev] Summertime -> Wintertime harmful?

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Sun Oct 30 09:23:54 EST 2005


Andreas Jung wrote:
> Possibly a stupid question:
> Last night the European clocks switched back to winter-time.
> So the ZODB might see multiple timestamps (and unordered transaction) 
> from transactions happened between 2am and 3am...just for curiosity: is 
> there a risk getting an inconsistent ZODB?

No.

First, ZODB time stamps are based on UTC time.
Second,  time-stamp skew doesn't lead to inconsistency.

Jim

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