[issue14222] Using time.time() in Queue.get breaks when system time is changed

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Well, in 3.3 we could use clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) where available.

It's better to use time.monotonic().

> That said, this is not specific to Queue.get() and will probably happen with many similar functions taking a timeout parameter.

Yep, it may be used for lock.acquire(timeout=timeout) for example. It 
would help to have a portable monotonic clock API in C.

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