measuring 1/100th seconds, what function?

[Roy Smith]

In article <87657ojp2l.fsf at uwo.ca>, Dan Christensen <jdc at uwo.ca> wrote:

> Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> ntp only works well if your clock rate is very consistent.  On all of
> the laptops I've used, I get frequent adjustments:
> 
> Aug  6 20:30:45 localhost ntpd[911]: time reset -0.472600 s
> Aug  5 22:04:57 localhost ntpd[919]: time reset +0.670974 s
> Aug  5 22:34:06 localhost ntpd[919]: time reset +0.884625 s
> Aug  5 23:13:54 localhost ntpd[919]: time reset -0.376758 s
> 
> I don't see any reason in principle ntp couldn't allow a greater
> offset between the local machine and the servers, and use gradual
> adjustments in this case.  But it doesn't.
> 
> Dan

I stand corrected.  Thank you.