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

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:

> 	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?    :)

Depends on wether you ask a mathematician:

- zero is neither positive or negative
- counts from 1
- increasing means ">"

or a computer scientist

- zero is positive
- counts from 0
- increasing means ">="


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