refactor: implement epoch clock logic #7190

Job	Run time
Integration tests (macos-latest)	2m 36s
Unit tests (windows-latest)	2m 39s
Linter	1m 59s
Build	1m 32s
Integration tests (ubuntu-latest)	1m 40s
Unit tests (ubuntu-latest)	1m 22s
E2E tests (macos-latest)	10m 7s
Integration tests (windows-latest)	3m 10s
E2E tests (windows-latest)	16m 20s
Unit tests (macos-latest)	1m 21s
Format check	47s
E2E tests (ubuntu-latest)	8m 39s
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