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Another solution might be to organize your system layout. If the laptop only does computations, i.e. does not do any direct interfacing, the laptop should not generate its own timestamps at all. For publishing, the timestamp should be that of the originating message. For transforming data, timestamps from the incoming messages should be used.

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