Segal's law
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A man with a watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure.
The proverb of conflicting authorities, and networking's favorite in-joke: it is literally why NTP exists and why serious timekeeping uses three or more sources with an algorithm to detect the liar. Two monitoring systems disagreeing about an outage is Segal's law with paging enabled.