static cvar_t sys_usequeryperformancecounter = {CVAR_SAVE, "sys_usequeryperformancecounter", "0", "use windows QueryPerformanceCounter timer (which has issues on multicore/multiprocessor machines and processors which are designed to conserve power) for timing rather than timeGetTime function (which has issues on some motherboards)"};
#endif
#if HAVE_CLOCKGETTIME
-static cvar_t sys_useclockgettime = {CVAR_SAVE, "sys_useclockgettime", "0", "use POSIX clock_gettime function (which has issues if the system clock speed is far off, as it can't get fixed by NTP) for timing rather than gettimeofday (which has issues if the system time is stepped by ntpdate, or apparently on some Xen installations)"};
+static cvar_t sys_useclockgettime = {CVAR_SAVE, "sys_useclockgettime", "1", "use POSIX clock_gettime function (not adjusted by NTP on some older Linux kernels) for timing rather than gettimeofday (which has issues if the system time is stepped by ntpdate, or apparently on some Xen installations)"};
#endif
static double benchmark_time; // actually always contains an integer amount of milliseconds, will eventually "overflow"