can we freeze the time for new transactions

[mookim-eth]

Some networks like Celo, require price oracle report to keep basic tokens functioning. In this case, as new transactions are minted in a block whose timestamp is set to current time, the forking cannot be used after serveral minutes. (error like this moolamarket/moola-fix#3 )

Can we just freeze the time, aka set the same timestamp (can be the time of forking block) for new blocks?

[MicaiahReid]

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you need to do, but maybe this pattern will help:

// ...ganache provider is already instantiated with startup options...

await provider.send("miner_stop"); // stop automatic mining so we can control when blocks are mined

// ...send whatever transactions you need in the block...

const timestamp = Date.now(); // set to whatever timestamp you want the block to have
await provider.send("evm_mine", [{timestamp: timestamp}] ); // mine a block with whatever timestamp you need

Does this help for your use-case?

[davidmurdoch]

You also might be able to make use of the --miner.timestampIncrement option and/or --chain.time to do what you want.