[_jal]

Oh, if you own someone's clock, you can do all sorts of damage.

Want to expire everyone's passwords? Blow up their credit card processing? Those are just the obvious attacks.

[samatman]

Yes but bringing down a database should not be among those things.

Surely we can agree on that.

[macintux]

I’m curious whether there is any database that handles this scenario correctly…or even whether there is a correct behavior for a situation where the system clock is rewound.

[pfarrell]

Good question. I used to test an auction app I maintained on SqlServer but I never pushed it more than a few hours into the future. To be clear: my experience with MongoDb was a one off local issue. No idea if there are server protections etc.