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# [Clock Skew and Causality Violations: Why Distributed Clocks Lie](https://abstractalgorithms.hashnode.dev/clock-skew-and-causality-violations?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Why wall clocks diverge, how NTP drift breaks Last-Write-Wins, and how vector clocks and HLC restore causal ordering

May 3 · 19 min read · abstractalgorithms.hashnode.dev  
Updated Jun 18  
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