https://docs.tlapl.us/ 2026-04-16T14:04:50+00:00 https://docs.tlapl.us/ https://docs.tlapl.us/_media/logo.png text/html 2024-12-21T12:05:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://docs.tlapl.us/learning:faq:modeling_time?rev=1734782702&do=diff How to approach modeling time? See Lamport's paper Real Time is Really Simple: <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/real-time-is-really-simple/> Basic idea: instead of having a monotonically-increasing time variable, you keep track of a set of upper-bound timers (action must happen before timer reaches zero) and lower-bound timers (action cannot happen until timer reaches zero) that always initialize to some finite value then tick down to zero instead of tracking an infinitely…