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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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I've been seeing these too on the Inspiron 7500..

-current from about 1 week ago.

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Mike Smith wrote:

> > > yes, with acpi timer disabled this seems to have gone away
> > 
> > Nope, even with the change Mike mentioned, I still get:
> > 
> > microuptime() went backwards (50013.3990440 -> 50012.321555)
> > microuptime() went backwards (50013.3990440 -> 50012.406351)
> 
> This looks really bad; like time is actually stepping forwards a second 
> or so accidentally.
> 
> One misread I'd put down to a glitch, but this looks like our idea of 
> "now" goes forward too fast and then "real time" takes a while to catch 
> up.
> 
> -- 
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> rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
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