The submillisecond test was broken in at least two ways. First, the...

base/time.h

 // Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 // Time represents an absolute point in time, internally represented as
 // microseconds (s/1,000,000) since a platform-dependent epoch.  Each
 // platform's epoch, along with other system-dependent clock interface
 // routines, is defined in time_PLATFORM.cc.
 //
 // TimeDelta represents a duration of time, internally represented in
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   // Returns a platform-dependent high-resolution tick count. Implementation
   // is hardware dependent and may or may not return sub-millisecond
   // resolution.  THIS CALL IS GENERALLY MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN Now() AND
   // SHOULD ONLY BE USED WHEN IT IS REALLY NEEDED.
   static TimeTicks HighResNow();
 
 #if defined(OS_WIN)
   // Get the absolute value of QPC time drift. For testing.
   static int64 GetQPCDriftMicroseconds();
+
+  // Returns true if the high resolution clock is working on this system.
+  // This is only for testing.
+  static bool IsHighResClockWorking();
 #endif
 
   // Returns true if this object has not been initialized.
   bool is_null() const {
     return ticks_ == 0;
   }
 
   // Returns the internal numeric value of the TimeTicks object.
   int64 ToInternalValue() const {
     return ticks_;
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 #endif
 };
 
 inline TimeTicks TimeDelta::operator+(TimeTicks t) const {
   return TimeTicks(t.ticks_ + delta_);
 }
 
 }  // namespace base
 
 #endif  // BASE_TIME_H_