Yesterday is after today

[exuvo]

Steps to reproduce

1. In an encrypted room chat, i see one of yesterdays messages at the bottom after todays messages.
2. If i write a new message it is at the bottom for 1s then jumps up to above yesterdays message.
   

Outcome

What did you expect?

For yesterday to be before today

What happened instead?

Yesterday is after today (monday)

Operating system

Arch linux

Application version

Element desktop 1.11.54

How did you install the app?

distro package manager

Homeserver

matrix.org

Will you send logs?

Yes

[t3chguy]

Events in Matrix are eventually consistent, this is normal and can happen if your server or the originating server is having federation issues causing the events to be delivered late.

[exuvo]

It is only the main matrix server which i use, no federation or logins on other servers.

[t3chguy]

There is no "main" server, if you mean matrix.org then I suggest [email protected]

[exuvo]

How many hours is the expected time for the "eventually consistent" to show things in the right order? Is a day too little?

[t3chguy]

The eventual consistency happens on the server, not the client. The client is fed with a linearised stream of events, abstracting the complexity, though sometimes ends up receiving out-of-order events from the server.

[exuvo]

This client is on 24/7 and i wrote that message that is in the wrong place yesterday ca 20 hours ago on the very same client that is showing it out of order. My other android client is showing it correctly.

[exuvo]

Restarted client and it now shows the stuck message as a not sent edit with a warning icon.

[t3chguy]

I suggest Settings > Help & About > Clear cache and reload

Different clients might see different things as matrix.org has many workers and your clients may be being served by different such workers causing a mismatch.