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Mon Apr 30 13:09:21 CEST 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-April/119143.html

On 30Apr2012 09:26, Mark Shannon <mark at hotpy.org> wrote:
| monotonic is an adjective,

Yes.

| whereas adjusted is (part of) a verb.

No. It is an adjective.

| I think 
| both should be adjectives. Does "adjusted" mean that it has been 
| adjusted, that it can be adjusted or it will be adjusted?

That depends on context. Reach for the doco.

Of course, in the context of the PEP means "may be adjusted by exterior clock
maintenance like NTP, and in fact this may have already happened". I am
unhappy with that filled with underscores and used as the name:-(

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