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Re:Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin by tyywebb on Monday August 07, 2017 @03:35PM (#14950526)
Couldn't you just do everything in UTC?
Re:Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin by PaulBGD_ on Monday August 07, 2017 @03:54PM (#14950705)
I'm not sure how that solves anything, since UTC would have the same issues as a UNIX timestamp.
Re:Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin by joneholland on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:49AM (#14956103)
I'd assume the correct thing to do is a vector clock, where each blocks time stamp is nothing more than a offset from the previous blocks.

It's easy to get most machines in agreement with how long a second is, but it's very very hard to get all nodes in agreement to what the exact time is.

So skip it entirely.