How to stop time from running backwards on Linux?

Question

Here\'s a little test I\'ve written to verify that time does indeed only run forwards in Linux.

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Answer 1

There is an open issue at the VirtualBox Bug Tracker. They link to a blog post stating why you shouldn't use gettimeofday() to measure the passage of time:

The most portable way to measure time correctly seems to be clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ...)