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Clocks are right most of the time, and that is precisely why a distributed system may never rely on them.
Drawn from what Martin Kleppmann said
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Computer science researcher at Cambridge
it's very easy to assume that your clocks are correct and most of the times the clocks are pretty correct but we just can't rely on it because actually they're just not precise enough uh on the whole.
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