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A nit-pick on gettime(9) man-page




	The system realtime clock is guaranteed to be monotonically
	increasing at all times.  As such, all calls to these functions
	are guaranteed to return a system time greater than or equal to
	the system time returned in any previous calls.


The guarantee to return a result "greater than or equal to" the previous
result is a property of a "monotonically non-decreasing" function.  A
"monotonically increasing" function would guarantee a results that is
strictly greater than any previous results.

So, which is correct here?    :)


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