It is assumed that clocks are in sync, we use ntp and it mostly works. -Jay
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Tom Amon <ta46...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've read in the docs and papers that LinkedIn has an auditing system that > correlates message counts from tiers in their system using a time window of > 10 minutes. The time stamp on the message is used to determine which window > the message falls into. > > My question is how do you account for clock drift between machines? Is it > assumed that clocks are in sync? > > Thanks. >