From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:45:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that the core time() may be rounding rather
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Document that the core time() may be rounding rather
than truncating, would have saved at least my confusion.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@10119
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diff --git a/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm b/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm
index 0f9d07b..0ff4798 100644
--- a/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm
+++ b/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm
@@ -262,6 +262,12 @@ Here is an example of using NVtime from C:
   myNVtime = (double(*)()) SvIV(*svp);
   printf("The current time is: %f\n", (*myNVtime)());
 
+=head1 CAVEATS
+
+Notice that the core time() maybe rounding rather than truncating.
+What this means that the core time() may be giving time one second
+later than gettimeofday(), also known as Time::HiRes::time().
+
 =head1 AUTHORS
 
 D. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com>