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		dikei on June 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patterns of Distributed Systems (2022) > you definitely cannot rely on clocks to determine (reliable) ordering across machines You can if you consider "unknown/possibly concurrent" also a valid outcome: for any 2 events A and B, True Time can definitely answers whether A is before B, A is after B, or A is possibly concurrent with B.

preseinger on June 28, 2023 [–]

"reliable ordering" usually implies a specific and well-defined order, without concurrent events :)

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