[OSM-talk] Time of changesets

Serge Wroclawski emacsen at gmail.com
Tue May 17 19:39:29 BST 2011


On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Donald Campbell II
<donaciano2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was looking at a changeset someone did on the main OSM site and was trying
> to figure out exactly when it was done.  What I see is for example: Closed
> at:Tue, 17 May 2011 14:16:44 +0000

Two things:

1. Currently that's not tracked, but
2. Changesets and when the changes are applied can be quite different
in time. The change can happen any time between the changeset opening
and closing. Changesets are not transactions, nor are they atomic.

- Serge



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