# Clock Skew

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

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Wall-Clock Ordering Assumption](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/wall-clock-ordering-assumption.md) and before [Physical-Clock-Only Ordering](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/physical-clock-only-ordering.md).

## Category

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

## In tension with

- [Hybrid Logical Clocks](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/hybrid-logical-clocks.md)
- [Hybrid Logical Clocks / Clock Skew](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/clock-skew-hybrid-logical-clocks.md)

## Linked from

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)