[Zope3-dev] datetime objects

Tim Peters tim@zope.com
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:35:46 -0500


[Tim]
> ...
> I'm afraid Python can't do anything about systems that make time
> appear to run backwards.

BTW, from previous iterations of this wrt Python's time.time(), time running
backwards seems common on two kinds of systems:

1. Multi-CPU systems, where the CPUs get out of synch and the C time()
   value we get depends on which CPU happens to be running the code
   when time() gets called.

2. "speedstep" laptops with buggy system software; the clock
   jumps around when the CPU rate changes.