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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Bookmarks Creator Studio Premium Profile More Post shubhaankar @__spongeboi Article See new posts Conversation yashaswi. @pixperk time is a distributed systems problem 1 2 27 438 a crucial concept across computer science is "time", specifically how clocks drift and how systems reason about time once computation spans multiple processes or machines. in distributed systems, time stops being just metadata and becomes part of correctness. machines do not store "time" the way humans think about it. they store numeric timestamps. the most common representation is "unix time", which counts seconds (or milliseconds or nanoseconds) since 'jan 1, 1970 UTC'. this representation works well because timestamps are comparable, serializable, timezone-independent, and easy to compute with. most databases normalize timestamps internally to 'UTC' or epoch values to avoid ambiguity introduced by ti
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