From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:43:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except when
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~805
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=58212724f2ab5ea83ec646ee620c0f74207b24c8;p=python

Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except when
the clock is set back.

This closes SF bug #447945.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
index 6823d5f80c..83d520e20d 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
@@ -287,7 +287,9 @@ Availability: Most modern \UNIX{} systems.
 Return the time as a floating point number expressed in seconds since
 the epoch, in UTC.  Note that even though the time is always returned
 as a floating point number, not all systems provide time with a better
-precision than 1 second.
+precision than 1 second.  While this function normally returns
+non-decreasing values, it can return a lower value than a previous
+call if the system clock has been set back between the two calls.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{datadesc}{timezone}