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monotonic-clocks
- Nov 22, 2025 Monotonic and Civil Clocks in Running Programs Why interval measurement needs a clock that never goes backwards, how leap seconds and suspend break civil time, and which timeout a kernel or runtime actually uses. distributed systems
- Jul 23, 2025 Clock Skew and the Arithmetic of Span Durations Why span durations stay trustworthy while span start times do not, how skew makes a child appear to outlive its parent, and what correction can and cannot recover. observability