Lexicon

Clock Skew

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Causality Core

Record: lexicon:clock-skew

Canonical: Lexicon

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

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Wall-Clock Ordering Assumption and before Physical-Clock-Only Ordering.

Category

  • Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time

In tension with

  • Hybrid Logical Clocks
  • Hybrid Logical Clocks / Clock Skew

Linked from

  • Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
  • The resolutions