> Specifically the time source of any client is totally meaningless since as you say further in the discussion that client machine times can be off by huge margins.
distributed systems like cockroach shouldn't use the client's conception of current time for anything at all, except possibly to store it (_verbatim_, don't interpret it) and relay it back to the client or to other clients (and let the client interpret it however they want).
distributed systems like cockroach shouldn't use the client's conception of current time for anything at all, except possibly to store it (_verbatim_, don't interpret it) and relay it back to the client or to other clients (and let the client interpret it however they want).