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Just the concept of using time for the logical clock is sketchy. It's not monotonically increasing, it drifts, it can go decrease, etc... Curious what their cro

Just the concept of using time for the logical clock is sketchy. It's not monotonically increasing, it drifts, it can go decrease, etc... Curious what their cross host/region ordering and consistency looks like.

sanxiyn 14y ago
"An atomic clock is not that expensive." -- http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html
- mikecb 14y ago
  Especially since there are 24 circling the earth that send out time continuously.
- jrockway 14y ago
  Indeed. A GPS clock accurate to 50ns is around $25 on eBay.
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