Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann

To adjust for incorrect device clocks, one approach is to log three timestamps

The client time when it was created and sent plus the time on the server when it was received. The difference between tjehe last two gives the ffset between the client and the server and can be sed to alcjlate the actual timestamp of the event.