[Python-checkins] peps: PEP 418: Add issues of the hacked monotonic function

Wed Apr 4 01:57:47 CEST 2012

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/c568a59a3b83
changeset: 4198:c568a59a3b83
user: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
date: Wed Apr 04 01:57:37 2012 +0200
summary:
 PEP 418: Add issues of the hacked monotonic function
files:
 pep-0418.txt | 7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pep-0418.txt b/pep-0418.txt
--- a/pep-0418.txt
+++ b/pep-0418.txt
@@ -900,6 +900,13 @@
 `KB274323`_ contains a code example to workaround the bug (use
 GetTickCount() to detect QueryPerformanceCounter() leap).
 
+Issues of a hacked monotonic function:
+
+ * if the clock is accidentally set forward by an hour and then back
+ again, you wouldn't have a useful clock for an hour
+ * the cache is not shared between processes so different processes wouldn't
+ see the same clock value
+
 
 Footnotes
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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/peps
