Hybrid Logical Clocks / Clock Skew

Kind: tension

Record: tension:clock-skew-hybrid-logical-clocks

Canonical: Schema

"hybrid-logical-clocks" (causality-core layer) is traded against "Clock Skew" (causality-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Clock Skew" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Lamport Clocks / No Concurrent Causality Distinction and before CRDTs / Metadata Overhead.

In tension with

• Hybrid Logical Clocks
• Clock Skew

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
• Resolution mechanisms