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authorAlex Willmer <alex@moreati.org.uk>2021-03-06 01:22:13 (GMT)
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bpo-43407: Clarify comparisons of time.monotonic() et al results (GH-24757)
Previous wording implied that only the result of call N and N+1 could be meaningfully compared, whereas comparing call N and N+M is fine.
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+Clarified that a result from :func:`time.monotonic`,
+:func:`time.perf_counter`, :func:`time.process_time`, or
+:func:`time.thread_time` can be compared with the result from any following
+call to the same function - not just the next immediate call.