From b3f682915a310b455bbde55260d60cab17382fc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <raphael.kubo.da.costa@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:57:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] data delivery: Set `timestamp` as an "unsafe shared current
 time"

Follow-up to #274, related to #257.

The wording used in #274, which mentions platform-specific timestamps, made
more sense in the context of the Generic Sensor API spec, as multiple
platform-specific sensor APIs provide samples with timestamps in a
platform-specific format that needs to be converted.

Of the OS-provided telemetry APIs, however, only Windows optionally provides
samples with a timestamp. As such, it makes more sense to define a timestamp
using the monotonic clock's unsafe current time instead. Aditionally, the
accompanying note was rewritten to indicate that the same value should be
used for all globals, otherwise the same sample would end up with different
"raw" timestamps in different frames/workers.
---
 index.html | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index fb45665..71c36af 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -1137,13 +1137,14 @@ <h3>Data delivery</h3>
         </aside>
         </li>
         <li>
-          Let |timestamp| be a platform-specific timestamp converted in an [=implementation-defined=]
-          way to an [=monotonic clock/unsafe current time=] using the same [=monotonic clock=]
-          that is shared by [=environment settings object/time origins=].
+          Let |timestamp| be [=unsafe shared current time=] corresponding to
+          the moment when |data| was obtained from |relevantGlobal|'s
+          [=platform collector=].
         <aside class="note">
-          The goal of this step is to ensure that a timestamp that may have been relative to
-          a different time origin is converted to a value that can be used in computations with
-          the same [=monotonic clock=] used by the operations described in [[HR-TIME]].
+          The goal of this step is to ensure that the same [=monotonic
+          clock/unsafe current time=] is used across all globals. The value is
+          then converted into a global-specific, [=coarsened moment=] in the
+          step below.
         </aside>
         </li>
         <li>