On Sunday 02 September 2012, s...@sfritsch.de wrote: > But it may still be a problem the other way round. If adjtimedelta > would go to zero during the lost ticks, there will be some > over-compensation that is not detected.
After some more hints from Mark (thanks), I think this is very unlikely to cause a problem in practice, possibly except if running on a virtualization host that is overloaded/swapping.