measuring 1/100th seconds, what function?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Tue Aug 10 23:23:10 EDT 2004
Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> Note that on a box connected to a network time-correction
> service, time.time can appear to "run backwards" briefly at
> unpredictable times.
This will never happen if you're running NTP. NTP does gradual
adjustments to the clock rate to ensure that the system clock is always
monotonically increasing.
It can happen if you're running some kind of time sync service other
than NTP. Why anybody would want to do such a thing is beyond me.
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