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 ## 3b. The clock (added 2026-10-20)
 
 Chain 2800 rejects a block header whose timestamp is more than **one second** ahead of the node's own
-clock (QBFT's `TimestampBoundedByFutureParameter(1)`), and at 0.6 s per block that rule bites at every
+clock (QBFT's `TimestampBoundedByFutureParameter(1)`), and at about 0.62 s per block that rule bites at every
 head:
 
 - a node whose clock is **behind** rejects the head blocks it is sent and disconnects the peer with