> This stuff is hard, you need to know a lot about network latency and time to make sure you're doing it right (have a look at the NTP spec for starters), there

> This stuff is hard, you need to know a lot about network latency and time to make sure you're doing it right (have a look at the NTP spec for starters), there's probably only a handful of people in the world who are capable of nailing it and probably most of them work in the military or atomic physics research labs. Funnily enough, Google appeared to have made it work well enough for a distributed database: http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html