Re: [libtorrent] universal_time to local_time

[Jules <jul...@ds...>]

> And, I want to stress this, changing  universal_time() to local_time() 
> in libtorrent _will_ introduce bugs!  libtorrent relies on the fact 
> that time is increasing continously  (and local_time() doesn't 
> necessarily do that).

You know that relying on this is probably a bad idea, don't you?  What 
happens if the user adjusts the time backwards?  This isn't as 
infrequent as you might think -- in some versions of Windows, for 
instance, it happens in the background if you double click on the time 
in the notifiction icon area and try to use the adjust time & date 
dialog as a calendar...

For a monotonically increasing clock, you need to be using 
GetTickCount() or something similar.  I don't know of any platform 
independent solution to the problem, but outside of Windows it's less 
likely to be a real issue.