[SDL] SDL_GetTicks() goes backwards

[Shawn]

On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 12:30, David Olofson wrote:
> Well, yeah. However, 'man gettimeofday' says:
> 
> "The tv_sec member of the struct is the number of seconds since the 
> Epoch (see time(2)), and  tv_usec  is  the  amount of microseconds 
> past the current tv_sec value."
> 
> 
> If this way of describing it implies that time cannot go backwards, 
> then there must be a bug in the way NTP adjusts time.

But what if your clock has gone too far forward? NTP corrects your time
and suddenly you're set backwards in time for a few seconds.

Technically then, time has gone backwards...