Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> I detected a strange bug in the standard function gettimeofday.
> It *sometimes* reports the time which being expressed as the integer
> number of milliseconds is *less* than the time obtained *earlier* with
> the same function.

...how often is "often"? Also what version of Windows are you running 
(I'm too lazy to save and re-open your cygcheck, it seems Thunderbird 
doesn't think it is text)? And for the $64k question, do you use NTP?

I have seen this sort of behavior before (on Linux, IIRC, but it might 
have been Windows): it can be caused by NTP clock slew.

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