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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:01:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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Subject: "calcru: negative time" messages with 2.2.1
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I keep getting "calcru: negative time: -XXX usec" messages from
my 2.2.1 box.  If it were running for quite some time, I would
expect these - but it occurs right after boot up...

The values aren't that large (say, -564, -599) - so I'm betting it's
the 'usec' field which has gone negative (or very large positive)
somehow (although, I'm expanding the printf() to ensure that's the
case.)

Can anyone thing of a reason why microtime() would behave so
strangely?

	- Dave Rivers -