It’s helpful in coordinating distributed systems, like how Google uses “TrueTime” in Spanner to ensure external consistency: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/do

It’s helpful in coordinating distributed systems, like how Google uses “TrueTime” in Spanner to ensure external consistency: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-consistency#1 https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con... Garden variety NTP time / system time I wouldn’t trust as an oracle for distributed systems but this kind of high precision time is probably suitable for that use.