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Re:One second per second is harder than it sounds by keeperofdakeys on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @04:57AM (#8067928)
Yeah, but you can't have your clocks drifting a lot. It's fine if they are consistently wrong, but when a second isn't a second, things can start to screw up.
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Re:One second per second is harder than it sounds by judk on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @10:14AM (#8069068)
Does Lamport's design use seconds at all, or use only "happens before" statements?
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