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Re:CockroachDB 1.0 by dsparkman on Thursday May 11, 2017 @06:44AM (#14315086)
Why not simply have the cluster sync a time between themselves? First node in the cluster gets the time, and as the new nodes come online they set their own internal time via the cluster? So in a world where there is not NTP or atomic clocks the system could continue to operate.
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Re:CockroachDB 1.0 by mjibson on Thursday May 11, 2017 @07:57AM (#14315350)
This doesn't take into account when clocks on different systems run at different speeds, or when clocks jump, especially on VMs and cloud instances, which happens all the time.
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