Richard Kettlewell writes:
> Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
>> Thing is -- it is the OS that is multi-user, even if you consider it a
>> single-user machine. There may things running that rely upon the clock
>> never going backwards
>
> There is a separate monotonic clock which doesn’t jump discontinuously
> (forwards or backwards). The wall-clock time may have much worse
> behavior.
>
> See ‘man clock_getttime’ for the available clocks under Linux.
Sorry, clock_gettime.
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