Message 50053 - Python tracker

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The patch is fine(*). Please do add a comment to the time
implementation to elaborate on the story of return values,
and why falling back should not be done (it ought not be
necessary, on systems where it is necessary, it might not
help, and it will hurt the OSX port).

One more bit on return values: gettimeofday can indeed fail
on Linux, and also when there is a TZ problem. OTOH, ftime
is implemented on top of gettimeofday (sic), and will then
fail for the same reason. I haven't looked at the time
implementation.

If you want to be really cautious, you could return 0.0 in
case the functions fail. The only caller of floattime will
then raise an IOError.