Accessing history timestamp

[lightsprint09]

As far as I know, every change encodes a wall clock time stamp. Is this already exposed?

[heckj]

That's not exposed from the core library (as of version 0.5.7)

[heckj]

/cc @alexjg

[alexjg]

It is possible to set the timestamp on a Transaction in the core library, but we are not using transactions here, we are using AutoCommit. I think what we should do is to add a configuration option to AutoCommit to allow you to annotate changes with a timestamp etc. (there are other metadata features we will want soon I think). Once we have that API we can expose the same API in Swift.

[alexjg]

I've added an issue in the automerge repo here: automerge/automerge#847

[lightsprint09]

Still no progress on this?

Not sure what this line of code does at the moment. Maybe we should remove the timestamp API for now

[alexjg]

Reading through this issue I realise that I may have misunderstood the original problem. Is the problem that you want to be able to read the timestamp on changes in the document or that you want to set the timestamp?

[lightsprint09]

I just want to read it. I guess it sets the value to something like now()?

[alexjg]

I believe the line you are referring to does return the timestamp on the change if it was set (I have not checked this, just from reading the code and my hazy memories). The timestamps are not actually set in this library unless you use Doc.commitWith to set the timestamp though.