p...@whooppee.com (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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