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Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:02:45 +0300
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Subject: Re: 1.7.5-1: problem with settimeofday() & gettimeofday()
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> Hello. It seems that I found a problem with settimeofday() and
> gettimeofday() calls in a single context. The problem is that if we
> set a new time with settimeofday() call it completes succefully and
> system time is updated. But then if we try to get current time with
> gettimeofday() call it returns old time!

I've looked into 'times.cc' and found that 'hires_ms gtod' timer
(which is used in gettimeofday()) is not reset with
'hires_ms::prime()' in settimeofday() after system call to Win32 API
SetSystemTime() function! I think this is the reason of described
behaviour.

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