Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:

Yury Selivanov wrote:
> 
> Yury Selivanov <yseliva...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> 
>> A monotonic clock is not suitable for measuring durations, as it may still 
>> jump forward. A steady clock will not.
> 
> Well, Victor's implementation of 'steady()' is just a tiny wrapper, which 
> uses 'monotonic()' or 'time()' if the former is not available.  Hence 
> 'steady()' is a misleading name.

Agreed.

I think time.monotonic() is a better name.

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