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.

Why not specify a monotonically increasing version counter instead of a
real time stamp?

Tony.
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