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1. marshr+(OP)[view] [source] 2013-11-13 11:10:50
The point is not that time synchronization is inherently bad, only that it's usually not the correct thing for a distributed database to resolve update conflicts with.
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2. ssever+Pt[view] [source] 2013-11-13 16:33:13
>>marshr+(OP)
Yes I completely agree. I fail to see how anyone would think that using a clock as a source of truth in a distributed system would be in anyway a good idea. As far as PTP it would be too expensive to deploy at large scale which was some of the motivation (i believe) behind truetime.
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3. marshr+4z[view] [source] [discussion] 2013-11-13 17:17:02
>>ssever+Pt
To be fair, time was considered to provide a pretty universal total ordering up until fairly recently, i.e., 1903.
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