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Jensen, C.S., Snodgrass, R.T. (2016). Absolute Time. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_1407-2

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