time.monotonic() roll over

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Thu Dec 4 11:21:19 EST 2014


Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com>:

> The implication is that if you go more than 49 days without calling
> the function on old Windows systems, rollovers could be missed, which
> is good to know about.

The implication is all but clear, but that was my suspicion. It would be
so bad that the documentation should be much more explicit about it.

No, that would be a Python standard library bug, period.


Marko



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