On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Dave Cridland wrote: > > I also have a fondness for modified strictly increasing timestamps, but > implementors need to appreciate that computer clocks go backwards, so they > need to remember to handle odd cases like that by "letting time catch up" - > just using a few ms later than the last timestamp until the real time is > greater than the last timestamp.
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