time.clock() going backwards??

[Terry Reedy]

"Giovanni Bajo" <noway at sorry.com> wrote in message 
news:vkFHg.82529$_J1.759243 at twister2.libero.it...
> Hello,
>
> I experimented something very strange, a few days ago. I was debugging an
> application at a customer's site, and the problem turned out to be that
> time.clock() was going "backwards", that is it was sometimes 
> (randomically)
> returning a floating point value which was "less than" the value returned 
> by
> the previous invokation. The computer was a pretty fast one (P4 3Ghz I 
> think,
> running Windows XP), and this happened only between very close 
> invokations of
> time.clock().

I seem to remember this being mentioned before on the list, perhaps by Tim 
Peters.  Perhaps he will chime in.

tjr