October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
TrueTime is a globally distributed clock built on GPS and atomic clocks. It returns a time interval that is guaranteed to contain the clock's actual time. TrueTime is provided to applications on Google Servers, which allows applications to generate monotonically increasing timestamps. Cloud Spanner uses TrueTime to assign timestamps to transactions whenever Cloud Spanner deems the transaction to have taken place.
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