# Don't use date/time as ordering mechanism for checkins

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/dont-use-date-time-as-ordering-mechanism-for-checkins/5936
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [November 6, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/dont-use-date-time-as-ordering-mechanism-for-checkins/5936 "2014-11-06T01:11:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![catenalogic](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/catenalogic/32/116_2.png) [@catenalogic](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/catenalogic)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/dont-use-date-time-as-ordering-mechanism-for-checkins/5936/1 "2014-11-06T01:11:32Z")

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The time on my development machine is wrong (a few minutes behind). Therefore I got this history:

 ![](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/uploads/default/original/2X/a/aa45f0bdd6af9b63e2096d74254e2e6272d762b3.png)  
  
As you can see t he commit has an earlier date/time, but is a later commit. However, the build server sees the pull request merge as latest change (and thus builds that one instead of the latest commit). After doing a dummy (whitespace) commit with a later timestamp, everything works again as expected.

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### Author: ![Sparky](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/sparky/32/10_2.png) [@Sparky](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Sparky)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2014, 11:18am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/dont-use-date-time-as-ordering-mechanism-for-checkins/5936/2 "2014-11-06T11:18:06Z")

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Hi Geert,  
  
Thanks fo reporting this. This will need further investigation but we should be able to solve it either by using parent id of each commit or by creating a order number based on the log order when using topo-order option. I’ll add this our issue list.