"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Mar 24 17:57:21 CET 2012

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> I don't see what is the use case requiring a is truly monotonic clock.

A clock that is purely monotonic may not be useful. However, people
typically imply that it will have a certain minimum progress (seconds
advanced/real seconds passed). Then you can use it for timeouts.

Regards,
Martin

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