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Re:Clock Skew Exists by andrewflnr on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @06:17PM (#11076993) 

  ...as long as they continue to count the time
  approximately at the same speed.
But according to the people Julia talked to, this assumption is also unreliable. Is that just a risk you feel you have to take?
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Re:Clock Skew Exists by jschwartzi on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @10:38PM (#11078088)
If you can characterize the latency involved in messaging between domains, it stands to reason that you can provide a reasonable bound on how close both systems are to an ideal shared clock source. If it's good enough, who cares if it's perfect?
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