VERGE dev's are so good on writing code that if they had chosen to continue with the first fork (see patch a3dd53f40aaedd28bd4d0fc720f034492f7ded81), the coin was now history.
this lines of code prove what I'm saying:
if (GetBlockTime() < pindexPrev->GetBlockTime())
return error("AcceptBlock() : block's timestamp is too early");
but wait, this is not over .. VERGE dev's are so arrogant that, they not even say thanks to @JonDoe01
see full discussion here:
https://github.com/vergecurrency/VERGE/commit/a3dd53f40aaedd28bd4d0fc720f034492f7ded81