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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:41:21 +0200
From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
To: "Jack Harvard" <jack.harvard@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: gettimeofday() resolution in Linux?
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Jack Harvard
<jack.harvard@googlemail.com> wrote:
>  Here is an example of gettimeofday results, the time rolls back sometimes.

If the result of gettimeofday() rolls back, and there is no process on
your system that sets the time (like ntpd or hwclock --hctosys) then
this is a kernel bug. Which kernel version are you using, and which
kernel patches have been applied to that kernel ?

Bart.