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Handling Clock Drift in Distributed Edge Devices
Industrial systems rely on accurate timestamps to understand what happened, when it happened, and how events across different systems relate to each other.
Edge devices, gateways, servers, and data collection systems maintain their own clocks, and those clocks drift over time. When these systems collect and process industrial data, inaccurate timestamps can lead to out-of-order events, unreliable historical records, and incorrect analysis.
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