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Subject: Re: logging time
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:19:52 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > Should the <time> attribute in the log output be the time returned by time()
  > or the time elapsed since the node was started?

It should be the time returned by gettimeofday().

This helps debugging since you can correlate events on
different nodes!
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>