In the upcoming Erlang 18 time got a huge refactoring: http://www.erlang.org/documentation/doc-7.0-rc2/erts-7.0/doc/html/time_correction.html http://www.erlang.

In the upcoming Erlang 18 time got a huge refactoring: http://www.erlang.org/documentation/doc-7.0-rc2/erts-7.0/doc/html/time_correction.html http://www.erlang.org/documentation/doc-7.0-rc2/erts-7.0/doc... There's a talk from Erlang Factory SF 2015 about the changes as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfsc2MyP8p8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfsc2MyP8p8 I think the concepts presented are applicable to all systems and not really Erlang specific, so I highly recommend it.