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

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sat Mar 31 02:26:35 CEST 2012

Guido van Rossum wrote:

But for the other, I'm still at a loss, and that name is the most important one. We can't call it steady because it isn't always. highres or hires sounds awkward; trymonotonic or trysteady are even more awkward. I looked in an online thesaurus and here's a list of what it gave:

"hires" is a real English word, the present tense verb for engaging the service or labour of someone or something in return for payment, as in "he hires a gardener to mow the lawn". Can we please eliminate it from consideration? It is driving me slowly crazy every time I see it used as an abbreviation for high resolution.

Big Ben, alarm, chroniker, chronograph, chronometer, digital watch, hourglass, metronome, pendulum, stopwatch, sundial, tattler, tick-tock, ticker, timekeeper, timemarker, timepiece, timer, turnip, watch

I wonder if something with tick would work? (Even though it returns a float. :-) If all else fails, I'd go with turnip.

I can't tell if you are being serious or not.

For the record, "turnip" in this sense is archaic slang for a thick pocket watch.

-- Steven

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