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(OP here) Thanks for the thoughtful comment!

Yes, you are right. To rephrase, you say that a browser could first increment its clock to the value larger that the backends, and then synchronize and "win" with the backend, setting the backend value to some bogus "none".

I'd say that it's "fine" in a way that the browser and the backend agree to "something" and are in sync. The case we wanted to prevent was that the browser and the backed hold different values and cannot agree which value to converge to.



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