time.monotonic() available from Python 3.3:
- Nicely communicates a narrow intent of "get a local system monotonic
clock time" instead of possible "get a not necessarily accurate Unix
time stamp because it needs to be communicated to outside of this
process/machine" when time.time() is used.
- Its result isn't affected by the system clock updates.
There are two classes of time.time() uses changed to time.monotonic()
by this change:
- measuring time taken to run some code.
- setting and checking a "close_at" threshold for for persistent db
connections (django/db/backends/base/base.py).
