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Sun Apr 8 00:43:35 CEST 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-April/118597.html

On 07Apr2012 01:47, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
| I don't understand this definition. All clocks have a clock drift.
| This is just one exception: atomic clocks, but such clocks are rare
| and very expensive.

They've got drift too. It is generally very small.

Anecdote: I used to keep my wristwatch (oh, the days of wrist
watches:-) synched to an atomic clock. By walking 4 metres down the hall
from my office to peer into the window of the room with the atomic
clock:-)

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[Python-Dev] this is why we shouldn't call it a "monotonic clock" (was: PEP 418 is too divisive and confusing and should be postponed)