strange nonmonotonic behavior of gettimeoftheday

["John Being" <olonho@hotmail.com>]

I've got following problem with 2.2.17 (Redhat stock kernel)
Linux ***** 2.2.17-14 #1 Mon Feb 5 14:57:25 EST 2001 i586 unknown
on AMD K6,  VIA Technologies VT 82C586, Compaq Presario XL119.
Following C program
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <time.h>
#define ABS(x) (x < 0 ? -x : x)
#define TIME_T struct timeval
#define TIME_DIFF_T long
#define GET_TIME(x) gettimeofday(&x, NULL)
#define TIME_DIFF(x1, x2) ((x2.tv_sec - x1.tv_sec)*1000000 + (x2.tv_usec - 
x1.tv_usec))
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
   TIME_T t1, t2;
   TIME_DIFF_T d;

   GET_TIME(t2);
   while (1) {
     GET_TIME(t1);
     d = TIME_DIFF(t2, t1);
     if (d > 500000 || d < 0) {
             fprintf(stderr, "Leap found: %ld msec\n", d);
             return 0;
     }
     t2 = t1;
   }
return 1;

gives following result on box in question
root@******:# ./clo
Leap found: -1687 msec
and prints nothing on all other  my boxes.
This gives me bunch of troubles with occasional hang ups and I found nothing 
in kernel archives at 
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
just some notes about smth like this for SMP boxes with ntp. Is this issue 
known, and how can I fix it?

  Thanks.


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