[coldsync-hackers] Re: last backup time

[Alessandro Zummo <azummo-coldsync@towertech.it>]

 On 18-Nov-01 at 22:10:41,
  Andrew Arensburger <arensb+CShackers@ooblick.com> wrote:

>>  Actually i check every record and i transfer it to the Palm if it's
>> modification time is greater that the last succesful sync time of the
>> database on the Palm.
>> 
>>  The question is: how realiable is this method? Should i embedd
>> a timestamp within every single record?

>     I think that's safe enough for most uses. The main thing to
> watch out for is time zones: early versions of PalmOS had no concept
> of time zone. I think newer versions are more intelligent, but I
> haven't looked into this. So if your Palm is set to the same time zone
> as the database, then you should be okay. If not, I don't know. Try it
> and see.

>     However, there's another problem: I'm not sure ColdSync
> updates the backup time on databases. At least, most of the databases
> in my current test and real .palm*/backup directories appear to have a
> backup time of 0. I'm not sure whether this broke at some point, or
> what.

On my system it seems to me the backup times are ok. howeverI decided
to embedd a timestamp just to be sure.. it happened that
an hotsync failed because the Palm time and the server one were not exactly
syncronized.



-- 

  - alex.


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