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March 24, 2012
4:57 p.m.
I don't see what is the use case requiring a is truly monotonic clock.
A clock that is purely monotonic may not be useful. However, people typically imply that it will have a certain minimum progress (seconds advanced/real seconds passed). Then you can use it for timeouts. Regards, Martin