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dgellowtoday at 10:37 AM1 replyview on HN

How confident are you that your machines clocks are in perfect sync? What about the risk of clock drift + correction, or hardware issues?


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croontoday at 12:04 PM

Not GP, but: not confident. How confident would I be to avoid a (slightly lower entropy) UUID collision while also avoiding a clock desync landing on the exact same logged millisecond? Very, which is how confident I was about not encountering an UUID collision before this thread, so very++ I guess.