On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 20:34 +0200, Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion wrote: > How do you determine which action was made first on a certain Agoran day > when multiple competing actions try to be the first message sent on that > day?
Emails have timestamps in their email headers, added by the various computers that the email goes through on its way to the recipient. Email sending is pretty fast (meaning that all the timestamps on any given email tend to be close to each other), so what normally happens is that the last timestamp on one of the competing emails comes before the first timestamp on the other, and so it's obvious which one came first. If two emails are sent at almost exactly the same time, then there can be some controversy about which of the various timestamps to look at. Normally this needs a CFJ to settle it, and although this sort of thing has been through the Agoran courts several times, I'm not sure whether we've reached a firm conclusion on the matter yet. -- ais523
