Refer to “Practical uses of synchronized clocks in distributed systems” for some info on algorithms like this. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/112600.112601 htt

Refer to “Practical uses of synchronized clocks in distributed systems” for some info on algorithms like this. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/112600.112601 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/112600.112601 Google spanner uses stuff like this with a clock called TrueTime. I don’t know how leap seconds / smearing is handled in that system.