Timestamp Enhancements

One could say that life would be better and more secure if we had everything under control. In the past, businesses were entirely managed locally. Servers were placed in a local server room directly in the company, supervised by the system and database administrators. Employees knew administrators and technicians personally, mostly through filing complaints if something was not working as expected. Individual systems were locally managed and people were able to meet physically, with meetings coordinated by the locally defined time. Simply put, there was no need to deal with date and time synchronization.

With the globalization of business, multiple branch offices began to be created, opened, and managed, resulting in sharing systems and responsibilities. Customers started to spread across the world. This resulted in the necessity to coordinate activities by date and time. To ensure correctness and robustness, data needed to be managed not just locally in one...