Comment by rhaen

It's a truly fantastic paper, but like many things the idea that it's impossible to have a perfectly consistent global view of time doesn't mean it's not possible to have a near-perfect one. The blog mentioned AWS's Timesync which lets you be synchronized into the microseconds (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-ti...), and Google's TrueTime is used to give ranges of times that you're guaranteed to be within (https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...).