Immediate - Date in Changed field

 Dear Cengiz,

 you wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 10:14:20 -0800
> Message-Id: <199701131814.AA22919 at cat.isi.edu>
> From: Cengiz Alaettinoglu <cengiz at ISI.EDU>
> To: noc at noc.dfn.de
> Cc: woeber at cc.univie.ac.at (Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet),
>         Carol.Orange at ripe.net, db-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: Immediate - Date in Changed field
> 
 [...]
> > >   Hi DB-folks!
> > > 
> > >   On a slightly different aspect,
> > >   and assuming that we change things anyway...
> > >   
> > >   How about running the RIPE-DB (and maybe gradually all the others :-) on
> > >   a UTC basis, according to some recent suggestions? 
> > 
> >  I think both the 4 digit year presentation and the UTC basis (I estimate
> >  this includes hh:mm:ss as well) are a very valuable extension for time
> >  stamps in the RIPE-db. This might as well ease some of the troubles in
> >  updates within the "near real time" mirrors.
> 
> I definitely agree for the need for this. But the changed attribute is
> inserted by the person who registers the object, not by the database
> software, he has the full control over which timezone he uses and to
> lie.
> 
> May be what we really want is a timestamp field with the granularity
> you suggest and in UTC zone, but inserted to the objects automatically
> by the database software. I see a lot of value in this.
> 
 I completely agree with you. This can only be done if the database software
 sets the time stamp. I guess this also solves most of the race conditions
 otherwise implied.
 Regards
     Joachim
 [...]
>
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