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		keeperofdakeys on July 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One second per second is harder than it sounds Yeah, but you can't have your clocks drifting a lot. It's fine if they are consistently wrong, but when a second isn't a second, things can start to screw up.

judk on July 22, 2014 [–]

Does Lamport's design use seconds at all, or use only "happens before" statements?

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