[Python-Dev] PEP 418: Add monotonic clock (original) (raw)

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 22:48:21 CEST 2012

On 2012-03-30, at 3:40 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I still think the name "monotonic" give the wrong impression; I would be happy calling it steady.

Simple google search comparison shows that people ask about 'monotonic' clock in python, not 'steady'.

How about following Nick's (if I recall correctly) proposal of calling the OS function - '_monotonic', and a python wrapper - 'monotonic'?

And one more question: what do you think about introducing a special check, that will ensure that our python implementation of 'monotonic', in case of fallback to 'time.time()', raises an exception if time suddenly goes backward?

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