for Reasons folks are talking about monotoic time again, and so it's time for me to link this comment again. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/e2223c94bf433fc38234d1303e88cbaf14755863/src/libstd/time.rs#L205-L232 …
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This is not a place of honor
Honestly I don't know why folks act like this is shameful. A legitimately useful API was hindered by OS and/or hardware bugs, and Rust successfully insulates its users from this. There should maybe be a `maybe_not_monotonic_now` exposed, but otherwise this seems awesome
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The "this is not a place of honor" meme comes from the messaging about nuclear waste disposal sites for future generations. I think in the analogy the nuclear waste is the underlying platform and the API successfully keeps you away from radiation poisoning.
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I'm not criticizing the stdlib
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I’d hope people’s horror is at the OS and hardware bugs, and not what rust is doing to circumvent
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