3.0 question (low priority)

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/06/15 6:47 PM, "Ivan Smahin" <ivan_smahin at valentina-db.com> wrote:

>>> For Valentina 3.0 we plan add such things as
>>> 
>>>     * transactions
>>>     * in support of above a new field type -Timestamp
>>> 
>>> I think this timestamp also can be useful for your task.
>>> 
> 
>> So a timestamp field would automatically update each time the record was
>> modified?  That could be very helpful.
>> I'm assuming it would be OS time.  This can make things a little
>> difficult with timezones.  If you could make it strictly Greenwich Mean
>> Time(GMT)-0 based, that could help a lot.
> 
> I'm afraid the  timestamps  would never be implemented as a time. It is just a
> value  which  can  be  incremented only by the system. You will not be
> able  to  use  this field for writing and read it as a time. Actually
> you will be able to use this field in some comparisons only.
> 
> Just a single reason to be not simple time there.
> Assume  I  set  system  time incorrect and have no way to connect some
> time-services... So you will have a mess instead of
> timestamps.

Right, It is kind of "internal clocks of database".

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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