Yup, I am just hoping these pool operators are running sensible clocks - if not using ntp.
I looked into this cause I am interested in the uncles probability in p2poolv2. If we look at the fork monitor, it looks like if blocks are within 15-30 seconds of each other it results in a fork. This makes me think if we can get the mean/stddev on the fork blocks timestamps deltas Again, assuming clock drift is not too high.
It’ll be fascinating to see how this delta changes between different pairs of pools. Detect friends and enemies 