# Clock Skew

> The degree to which physical clocks on different nodes drift apart, distorting time-based ordering.

Record: `lex:clock-skew`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Causality Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/causality-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-clock-skew

## category

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)

## referenced-by

- [Hybrid Logical Clocks](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/hybrid-logical-clocks.md)