Alexandre Delattre

Just to have more context/understanding on the background issue you are addressing, is it related that the wall clock would be non monotonic (for instance a NTP update, could adjust...

Ok the solution makes a lot of sense, especially if you consider the spans to be short-lived (few seconds) compared to the process. So I guess it would not be...

Also as a basic / first-time user of Otel I don't see any particular use case where I would want to mess with the underlying clock. Do you have any...

Just a suggestion/thinking out loud (and probably not applicable due to the existing API ^^), but why not having a "hot" span API intended for live tracing where you cannot...