On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com>: > >> The implication is that if you go more than 49 days without calling >> the function on old Windows systems, rollovers could be missed, which >> is good to know about. > > The implication is all but clear, but that was my suspicion. It would be > so bad that the documentation should be much more explicit about it. > > No, that would be a Python standard library bug, period.
It's not a Python issue. Python can't do anything more than ask the system, and if the system's value rolls over several times a year, Python can't magically cure that. The information has already been lost. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list