Re: Monotonic clock timestamp on packets

[Thomas Habets <thomas () habets pp se>]

On Tue, 4 May 2010, Prasanna Kumar Nelam wrote:
> If u want to that time the pkthdr u have the timestructure have the time in
> seconds and microseconds.

In wall clock time, yes. The problem is that this breaks when the time is 
changed, using NTP or by some other means. You can even end up with a 
negative time delta.

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