Accurate time is what makes Google Spanner (global SQL database) work. Hope others start implementing easy global consistency with this. > ...enables clients o

Accurate time is what makes Google Spanner (global SQL database) work. Hope others start implementing easy global consistency with this. > ...enables clients of Cloud Spanner to perform consistent reads across an entire database (even across multiple Cloud regions) without blocking writes. https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-consistency https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...