A major impediment to implementing tracing on Cell is the absence of a common clock that can be accessed at low cost from all cores. The OS clock is costly to access from the auxiliary cores and the hardware timers cannot be simultaneously set on all the cores. In this paper, we describe an offline trace analysis that assigns wall-clock time to trace records based on their thread-local time stamps and event order. Our experiments on several Cell SDK workloads show that the indeterminism in assigning the wall-clock time is low, on average 20–40 clock ticks (1.4–2.8 μs for 14.8 MHz clock). We also show how various practical problems, such as the imprecision of time measurement, can be overcome.