<snip: discussion about time zones> > No, if the GUIDs are generated from a clock, then this > won't ensure that > GUIDs are always increasing. > > To reiterate from previous emails: > > What if one of the provider's clock runs fast? Runs slow? > > What if a GUID occurs from a previous epoch?
So could you exmplain what you mean by clock running fast or slow? If all servers in the cluster are synced with a remote NTP server periodically I can't see how this would happen. This could just be a requirement of clustered multi-master systems. Kevin
