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On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Richard Cochran
<richardcochran-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> we want to be able to jump the clock arbitrarily.

Another problem remains:  How do you deal with leap seconds?  I mean,
given that 1 minute is not always 60 seconds, then what time was it
XXXXX seconds ago?   Maybe some kind of lookup table is necessary, but
in such case, isn't it a better choice just to use the
clock_settime/settimeofday syscall?