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Re: time.monotonic() roll over

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Date	2014-12-05 07:02 +1100
Subject	Re: time.monotonic() roll over
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.16581.1417723367.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
>
>> ... what you said  There's no way to guarantee to keep calling the
>> function. You have to depend on upstream.
>
> The caveats I listed are real concerns for the modern-day programmer.
> However, they are of a different nature than the complaint against
> time.monotonic().

But they're also reasons you can't have Python code around the
problem. Anyway, it's only an issue for one platform, and only for
some versions of it; basically, if you're targeting anything other
than Windows XP, you should be able to use time.monotonic() without
concerns.

ChrisA

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time.monotonic() roll over "ast" <nomail@invalid.com> - 2014-12-04 16:25 +0100
  Re: time.monotonic() roll over Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-12-04 17:50 +0200
    Re: time.monotonic() roll over Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-12-04 09:05 -0700
      Re: time.monotonic() roll over Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-12-04 18:21 +0200
        Re: time.monotonic() roll over Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 03:27 +1100
          Re: time.monotonic() roll over Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-12-04 20:09 +0200
            Re: time.monotonic() roll over Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 05:29 +1100
              Re: time.monotonic() roll over Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-12-04 20:44 +0200
                Re: time.monotonic() roll over Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 07:02 +1100
            Re: time.monotonic() roll over Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-12-04 12:29 -0700
            Re: time.monotonic() roll over Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2014-12-04 23:24 +0300
            Re: time.monotonic() roll over Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 07:33 +1100
              Re: time.monotonic() roll over Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-12-04 22:51 +0200
            Re: time.monotonic() roll over Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-12-04 15:17 -0700
              Re: time.monotonic() roll over Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-12-05 00:44 +0200
                Re: time.monotonic() roll over Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 10:04 -0700
                Re: time.monotonic() roll over Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-12-05 20:48 +0200
            Re: time.monotonic() roll over Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-12-05 11:39 +1100
              Re: time.monotonic() roll over Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-04 20:21 -0500
                Re: time.monotonic() roll over Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-12-05 13:54 +1100
                Re: time.monotonic() roll over Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-05 00:29 -0500
                Re: time.monotonic() roll over Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2014-12-05 08:56 +0100
                Re: time.monotonic() roll over Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-12-05 21:09 +1100
                Re: time.monotonic() roll over Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-12-05 12:12 -0500
              Re: time.monotonic() roll over Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-12-05 08:17 +0200
                Re: time.monotonic() roll over Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-12-05 12:31 -0500
              Re: time.monotonic() roll over Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 12:48 +0300
    Re: time.monotonic() roll over Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 03:12 +1100
    Re: time.monotonic() roll over random832@fastmail.us - 2014-12-04 11:51 -0500
  Re: time.monotonic() roll over Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-12-05 00:54 +0000

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