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

On 2012-03-23, at 7:25 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

- time.steady(): monotonic clock or the realtime clock, depending on what is available on the platform (use monotonic in priority). may be adjusted by NTP or the system administrator, may go backward.

time.steady() is something like:

try: return time.monotonic() except (NotImplementError, OSError): return time.time()

Is the use of weak monotonic time so wide-spread in the stdlib that we need the 'steady()' function? If it's just two modules then it's not worth adding it. - Yury