It is of course not exactly the same (no relativistic speeds involved here) but I still like the comparison because “time” is essentially just a word that we use to describe a sequence of changes to the state of a system where everything that happened before “the current state” is considered to be the past and everything that happens after “the current state” is considered to be the future.

If we look at the activity in a DLT, then we see a sequence of transactions (that may lead to changes of the state of the system) where previous states of the system — the past — are referenced by the current state of the system — now. This means, that every DLT defines its own “time”.

Every node sees these events in a slightly different order and therefore has a slightly different perception of “time” within it’s own reference frame.

So I am not really talking about “human time” here which is measured in hours, minutes and seconds but some kind of “logical time” based on what the nodes perceive.

But of course you are right, the cause for this is that “information takes time to propagate” which is a trivial thing. But I think it is still important to point out because some people might think that there might be some magical consensus mechanism that get’s around voting.