[issue37205] time.perf_counter() is not system-wide on Windows, in disagreement with documentation

2019-06-08 Thread Ken Healy
New submission from Ken Healy : The documentation for time.perf_counter() indicates it should return a system-wide value: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.perf_counter This is not true on Windows, as a process-specific offset is subtracted from the underlying

[issue37205] time.perf_counter() is not system-wide on Windows, in disagreement with documentation

2019-06-08 Thread Ken Healy
Ken Healy added the comment: Note that this offset subtraction behavior appears to be inherited from time.clock(), which did not make any guarantees about returning a system-wide value: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ec89539d6103665a7a5c7234cf09f27c1c72#diff

[issue37205] time.perf_counter() is not system-wide on Windows, in disagreement with documentation

2019-06-19 Thread Ken Healy
Ken Healy added the comment: Hi Terry, I'm new to this so apologies in advance if this is a silly question...can you explain why you removed 3.5 and 3.6 from the versions list? I have tested that the issue is present in 3.6 and the offending code has been present since time.perf_co