With milestone 7 my snapshot dependencies have not been updated a couple of times when running gradle. However, this only happens sometimes and I have not found a stable way to reproduce. After deleting the gradle cache, the updated artifacts are downloaded. I’m running against a nexus repository.
I noticed that gradle uploads artifacts UTC/GMT timezone (UTC/GMT) while we are one hour ahead. However, on download gradle seems to use the local timezone to compare times which makes gradle believe in certain situations that a jar has not been updated.
Example: - Project A depends on Project B ( A->B ) - Local timezone: UTC + 1h - gradle dependencies is executed on project A at 10:05 UTC (11:05 local time). A new snapshot gets fetched. - gradle uploadArchives is executed on project B at 10:30 UTC, a new snapshot is uploaded with the timestamp 10:30 - At 11:35 UTC (11:35 local time) gradle dependencies is invoked on project A. Gradle compares the local timestamp of the last downloaded artifact (11:05 local time) with the UTC timestamp of the newest artifact (10:30) in this case. Gradle thinks that it has already downloaded the latest artifact which is wrong.
Can you confirm this?
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