[Python-Dev] PEP 418: Add monotonic clock

[Nick Coghlan]

Matt, we need the fallback behaviour in the stdlib so we can gracefully
degrade the stdlib's *own* timeout handling back to the 3.2 status quo when
there is no monotic clock available. It is *not* acceptable for the Python
3.3 stdlib to only work on platforms that provide a monotonic clock.

Since duplicating that logic in every module that handles timeouts would be
silly, it makes sense to provide an obvious way to do it in the time
module.

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