# Wall-Clock Ordering Assumption

> Ordering distributed events by wall-clock timestamps, which clock skew makes unreliable.

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

## category

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

## referenced-by

- [Lamport Clocks](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/lamport-clocks.md)