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**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Sat Apr 19 22:18:28 2014_ ---- synchronized clocks: that must be a misunderstanding. A global (=synchronized) clock is a useless concept in distributed systems with asynchronous message...

**Comment by [cdsteinkuehler](https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler)** _Sun Apr 20 03:24:02 2014_ ---- On 4/19/2014 5:18 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > under certain conditions it is possible to correlate such partial > orderings, and...

**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Mon Apr 21 04:59:17 2014_ ---- yeah, I thought about this too. The point where most processing comes in is in the originator: generating, and tacking on...

**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Thu Apr 24 04:52:04 2014_ ---- beginnings of requirements and cleanup work needed: The 'machineflake' will consist of a local timestamp, a serial, and a generator ID....

**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Tue Apr 29 04:01:31 2014_ ---- I've spent too much time on this, so for now I'm standing back for a simple serial/generatorID scheme (32bits each) so...

**Comment by [cdsteinkuehler](https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler)** _Tue Apr 29 10:19:34 2014_ ---- On 4/28/2014 11:01 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > I've spent too much time on this, so for now I'm standing back...

**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Tue Apr 29 10:25:58 2014_ ---- makes sense, but in the minimum the serial space must exceed the length of the largest queue to be handled, or...

**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Wed Jul 8 05:50:14 2015_ ---- this is an interesting & practical [paper on timestamps in distributed systems](http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs426/2012/lab/bib/fidge88timestamps.pdf) .

**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Thu Oct 15 08:30:43 2015_ ---- good solution, but likely overkill: [How to Have your Causality and Wall Clocks, Too by Jon Moore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNGbvFHoKM&feature=youtu.be)

**Comment by [machinekoder](https://github.com/machinekoder)** _Sat Oct 17 03:50:04 2015_ ---- Thats pretty similar to how the time synchronization of FlexRay works.