type-aliases/stamps/">Stamps type aliases</a></li><li><a href="/api/common/type-aliases/stamps/hlc/"><code>Hlc</code></a></li></ul></nav><section class="s1" id="/api/common/type-aliases/stamps/hlc/" data-id="H4"><h1><code>Hlc</code></h1><p>The <code>Hlc</code> type is a string that represents a Hybrid Logical Clock (HLC) value.</p><pre><code><span class="builtin">string</span></code></pre><p>HLCs are used to provide a globally unique timestamp that can be used to order events across distributed systems. The