# Physical-Clock-Only Ordering

> Ordering events by physical clocks alone, which clock skew renders inconsistent across nodes.

Record: `lex:physical-clock-only-ordering`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Causality Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/causality-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-physical-clock-only-ordering

## 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)