[Python-Dev] Rename time.steady(strict=True) to time.monotonic()? (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sat Mar 24 03:26:15 CET 2012


Victor Stinner wrote:

- time.clock(): monotonic clock on Windows, CPU time on UNIX

Actually, I think that is not correct. Or at least was not correct in 2006. http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/527849-time-clock-going-backwards Oh, I was not aware of this issue. Do you suggest to not use QueryPerformanceCounter() on Windows to implement a monotonic clock?

I do not have an opinion on the best way to implement monotonic to guarantee that it actually is monotonic.

-- Steven



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