On 2017-01-04 10:10, Paul Goyette wrote:
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? :)
Being nitpicky myself then, it's not the functions who are monotonically increasing. It is the system realtime clock that is. Thus all calls to these functions are guaranteed to return values that are greater than, or equal to the system time returned on previous calls.
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