From dea34506fbcb251d3a119556f642248b94a5bd99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ethan Buchman <ethan@coinculture.info>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 17:58:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] types/time: add note about stripping monotonic part

---
 types/time/time.go | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/types/time/time.go b/types/time/time.go
index 62aca9ec3..022bdf574 100644
--- a/types/time/time.go
+++ b/types/time/time.go
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ func Now() time.Time {
 }
 
 // Canonical returns UTC time with no monotonic component.
+// Stripping the monotonic component is for time equality.
+// See https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/2203#discussion_r215064334
 func Canonical(t time.Time) time.Time {
 	return t.Round(0).UTC()
 }