Please feel free to disregard if you don't want to go ahead with this, but this is a small tweak that I'd like to propose that I think will improve the reliability of cabal especially for mobile, where clocks are less reliable.

The messages in cabal are currently ordered by 'real' timestamp and also here. This poses an issue for the often case where 'real' clocks are not reliable, if you go offline for 24+hrs or a few days, you'll start to notice your electronics will suffer from 'clock drift' .. or sometimes will just reset randomly to some date in January 2017 or something like that.

An improvement on this is where you take a number and add it to the 'real' clock time, and this number is based upon other numbers you have seen for messages in your log. This is called a vector clock. A simpler implementation can be done as a lamport clock. Just a silly old European way of taking a simple idea and putting someone's name on it, but it's pretty straightforward.

This is a quick watch and a really useful one if you have time: https://www.dotconferences.com/2019/12/james-long-crdts-for-mortals

The benefits for Cabal would be pretty unnoticed for most people especially us, since we are all usually connected to the Internet. But it might also help for messages that come 'back in time' as it would be more clear which exact message before (based on the number), that the person was responding to or messaging after.

Curious what people think about this change?