-
-// Since the monotonic clock will provide us with the time since the
-// computer started, the number of seconds since that time could easily
-// become so large that it cannot be accurately stored in a float (even
-// with as little two days uptime), therefore we need to start from a more
-// recent reference (when the program starts). Of course this isn't much
-// of an issue if scalar is a double-precision number.
-
-static time_t set_reference()