Synthetic event time

Simulated or generated data carries fabricated timestamps that must never masquerade as measured time, or backtests and training sets silently mix real and synthetic history.

Class

Case to account for

Affects

1 conversion

Detection

Clock source is 'synthetic'; provenance points to a generator, not a sensor.

Mitigation

Tag synthetic time at the source and preserve the tag through every join and rollup.

Affected conversions

Timestamp + zonehour-of-week slot

OPEN