>it stops being possible to have a true before/after relationship between individual log entries.
Timestamps solve this easily. Synchronizing the time between machines isn't hard
Timestamps solve this easily. Synchronizing the time between machines isn't hard
Well, maybe "hard" can be relative to scope and scale. It took google engineers some trial and error before settling on the concept of "smearing a leap second" across the entire day. Relying on plain vanilla NTP sync and GPS satellites was not enough.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-l...
I can't tell if this is snark or not. Either way, it made me giggle.