# Physical-Clock-Only Ordering

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

Record: `lexicon: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#lexicon-physical-clock-only-ordering

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Clock Skew](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/clock-skew.md) and before [Wall-Clock-Correlated Causal Order](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/wall-clock-correlated-causal-order.md).

## Category

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

## Negated by

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

## Linked from

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