Lexicon

Single Global Clock Assumption

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Causality Core

Record: lexicon:single-global-clock-assumption

Canonical: Lexicon

Assuming a single global clock orders all events, which fails across distributed nodes with independent clocks.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Node Identity and before Version Vector.

Category

  • Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time

Negated by

  • Vector Clocks

Linked from

  • Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time