Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone Security

[Jack Lloyd]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:31:40AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Yes.  Distributed systems research has concluded that there ain't no
> such thing as a trustable global clock.  (I don't have cites - this is
> my paraphrase of something Nathaniel said some years ago.)  In
> particular, the rule Daniel suggested in his next message

Leslie Lamport has done a lot of work in this area. His "Time, Clocks
and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"
(http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#time-clocks)
is well worth reading.

-Jack