Question: I got two answers to a story-identification question, pointing to the **same series**. And the time marked for the two answers is the very same minute.
I still have to check if it is right series, (at first sight it does look so, but I'll have to do some more checking).

But when and if I am convinced both answers are correct, what should I do?

Form the time marks and the lengths of the answers it looks like both answers were typed independently. There was no way one could have been typed by copying the other one. Definitely not enough time.

What should I do?

Answer: 
You have several options:

* **Do nothing**

As the questioner you never have an obligation to do anything with answers. When you receive any answer you can choose to comment on it, vote on it, flag it, or accept it, but you don’t have to do any of those. Here too you can do nothing if you so desire.
* **Upvote both and accept the better one**

Usually two answers won’t be word for word identical even when they’re giving the same answer. Perhaps one answer has more details about the story, or one answer makes a better case for why it is the correct identification.
* **Accept whichever one came first**

It is unlikely that both answers will have the same timestamp down to the exact second.
* **Any other arbitrary/random method of deciding**

Let’s see how creative you are.
* **Accept one and bounty the other**

See above for how to decide which to do for which.

In short, you can do whatever you want as long as you don’t violate any of the site’s rules.
Paulie\_D's answer was earlier by 11 seconds ([22:58:11 vs. 22:58:22](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/224677/timeline)).

Assuming you feel that the two answers ***are of otherwise equal quality***, I'd suggest you reward the one that was sooner.