For these tests, the date returned by clock_gettime() will be compared with that returned by the gettimeofday() function. Assumptions: - Machines running these test cases also have access to the gettimeofday function. - Ideally, the gettimeofday() function has different internals than clock_gettime(). [Hopefully, clock_gettime() doesn't just _call_ gettimeofday(), for instance.] However, even if not, it's still a valid test to make sure clock_gettime() doesn't have an error somewhere else. ==> See http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=591583&forum_id=2469 It turns out these two functions _should_ return the same value but do have different internals, so this is a good test case. ----- Another note: At one point, I considered using ntpd to do date checking. That idea ended up getting thrown out, but one thing I want to document is that, if I did chose that idea, the tester would need to install RPMs: ntp libcap for it to run.