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`block.timestamp` value varies within block

See original GitHub issue

@vzts reported this behavior in truffle 921 - there’s more detail there. In summary it’s unclear what the expected behavior is and @benjamincburns suggested we follow the other major clients, favoring static timestamps if there’s no agreement.

Have just tested intra-block time values on geth dev and Parity POA over 4 calls at 1 second intervals: both have static timestamps.

Will send a PR fixing this at processCall - just opening here in the meantime in case this change would impact any other timing related issues or there are implementation details to consider.

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Created 5 years ago
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rudolfixcommented, Sep 24, 2018

Ganache CLI v6.1.8 (ganache-core: 2.2.1) this problem still persists, I’m logging timestamps via events in quite complex transaction and I’m getting different timestamps. apparently they are taken from the system clock each time

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davidqhrcommented, Jul 3, 2019

@haltman-at Sure. Will create a PR.

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