.TP
.B CLOCK_MONOTONIC
A nonsettable system-wide clock that
-represents monotonic time since\(emas described
-by POSIX\(em"some unspecified point in the past".
+represents monotonic time since\[em]as described
+by POSIX\[em]"some unspecified point in the past".
On Linux, that point corresponds to the number of seconds that the system
has been running since it was booted.
.IP
All
.B CLOCK_MONOTONIC
variants guarantee that the time returned by consecutive calls will not go
-backwards, but successive calls may\(emdepending on the architecture\(emreturn
+backwards, but successive calls may\[em]depending on the architecture\[em]return
identical (not-increased) time values.
.TP
.BR CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE " (since Linux 2.6.32; Linux-specific)"