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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:41:00 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gettimeofday running backwards on 2.4.20
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Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Applications like games (but not only games) can get pretty messed up by a 
> timeofday that jumps backwards every couple of seconds.

It's a foolish game that doesn't implement your monotonicity algorithm
itself...

-- Jamie