Re: Cart Unique After Rolling Back Time?
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It keeps the original formatting.
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interpreted = N
texte = on 11/7/01 4:12 pm, John Peacock at jpeacock@rowman.com wrote:> Samuel Renkert wrote: >> >> Metaphysics aside, is their any guarantees about [cart] still being >> unique for a given machine after that machine's clock is set to a >> previous date/time? >> > > As I understand it (Grant can correct me if he wants to), the cart is > guaranteed to be unique at a point in time and forward, because it is > created using some hairy combination of time/date/machine specific > info/etc. > > Like the old joke goes Don't do that! > > John > On a similar vein, does anyone know whether it's possible to identify the month/year from a cart number? The reason is that we store all our completed orders in monthly folders, and when we need to load up a previous order we're currently having to query an extra database which just simply logs CART & date, but it would be nice to simplify this if we can.Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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on 11/7/01 4:12 pm, John Peacock at jpeacock@rowman.com wrote:> Samuel Renkert wrote: >> >> Metaphysics aside, is their any guarantees about [cart] still being >> unique for a given machine after that machine's clock is set to a >> previous date/time? >> > > As I understand it (Grant can correct me if he wants to), the cart is > guaranteed to be unique at a point in time and forward, because it is > created using some hairy combination of time/date/machine specific > info/etc. > > Like the old joke goes Don't do that! > > John > On a similar vein, does anyone know whether it's possible to identify the month/year from a cart number? The reason is that we store all our completed orders in monthly folders, and when we need to load up a previous order we're currently having to query an extra database which just simply logs CART & date, but it would be nice to simplify this if we can.Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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