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Patch for manual/time.texi


I'm appointing a patch that better describes the wrap around in clock
than my last patch.

Andreas

1999-11-29  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@suse.de>

	* manual/time.texi (Basic CPU Time): Better describe wrap around.
	Patch by Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>.

============================================================
Index: manual/time.texi
--- manual/time.texi	1999/11/25 07:55:05	1.79
+++ manual/time.texi	1999/11/29 12:09:28
@@ -96,8 +96,9 @@
 what the underlying representation is.
 
 Note that the clock can wrap around.  On a 32bit system with
-@code{CLOCKS_PER_SEC} set to one million a wrap around happens after
-around 36 minutes.
+@code{CLOCKS_PER_SEC} set to one million this function will return the
+same value approximately every 72 minutes.
 
 @comment time.h
 @comment ISO

-- 
 Andreas Jaeger
  SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
   private aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de
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