On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:31:40AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Yes. Distributed systems research has concluded that there ain't no > such thing as a trustable global clock. (I don't have cites - this is > my paraphrase of something Nathaniel said some years ago.) In > particular, the rule Daniel suggested in his next message
Leslie Lamport has done a lot of work in this area. His "Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" (http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#time-clocks) is well worth reading. -Jack _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
