Can QueryPerformanceCounter return negative timestamps?

[Robert Ennis1]

Dear community,this is my first time asking a question here, so apologies if I am in the wrong place or have framed the question incorrectly.In our software, we use QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency. We were under the impression that QueryPerformanceCounter could return negative, but increasing, timestamps. However, some searching online suggests that on Windows, getting negative timestamps from the high-performance timer, even if monotonically increasing, is a sign of a problem in the system, perhaps even a BIOS configuration issue.For example, see the following discussion

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