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Re:Microsoft to retire Skype Linux app on July 1 by Dylan16807 on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:01PM (#14522670)
The eventual consistency part of skype doesn't really cause problems. But how it screws up simple timestamping is quite another question.
Re:Microsoft to retire Skype Linux app on July 1 by tracker1 on Friday June 09, 2017 @02:50PM (#14523507)
The timestamp probably isn't to the MS, and/or there may be some drift on whichever server recorded the incoming message... it should be set to ms on the client, and only in the case of > 2s drift be adjusted on the server.