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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:27:55AM +0100, Clemens Koller wrote:
> Hello, Chris!
> 
> On 2017-03-23 00:12, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:53:40PM +0100, Clemens Koller wrote:
> >> The timestamp is not human readable. It seems strange to me to dump it as hex-number on the UI. (WTF!?)
> > 
> > I'm struggling to think of a use for this. Maybe for power users, to
> > jump quickly to the component in the raw sch file by searching for it -
> > but why not just search for the reference?
> > 
> > I wonder how many people would complain if I took that out.
> 
> I'd complain. 8-)
> Because the timestamp is a valuable information (until we have proper version control in situ).
> But: NOT in hex form. 

Really? How do you use it?

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Clemens
>