time.clock() going backwards??
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skip at pobox.com
Fri Aug 25 20:10:05 EDT 2006
>> I seem to remember this being mentioned before on the list, perhaps by Tim
>> Peters. Perhaps he will chime in.
Claudio> If I remember it right, the cause of such a problem is updating
Claudio> the clock by accessing a time server over a network. Just any
Claudio> such access results in adjusting the time a bit and leads
Claudio> eventually to such problems.
Wouldn't that affect time.time (time since the start of the Epoch), not
time.clock (cpu time used by the current process)?
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