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[Python-Dev] PEP 418: Add monotonic clock

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Fri Mar 30 22:44:55 CEST 2012 
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:40:25 -0700, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> But for the other, I'm still at a loss, and that name is the most
> important one. We can't call it steady because it isn't always.
> highres or hires sounds awkward; try_monotonic or try_steady are even
> more awkward. I looked in an online thesaurus and here's a list of
> what it gave:
> 
> Big Ben, alarm, chroniker, chronograph, chronometer, digital watch,
> hourglass, metronome, pendulum, stopwatch, sundial, tattler,
> tick-tock, ticker, timekeeper, timemarker, timepiece, timer, turnip,
> watch
> 
> I wonder if something with tick would work? (Even though it returns a float. :-)
> 
> If all else fails, I'd go with turnip.

We could call it "alice"[*]: sometimes it goes fast, sometimes it goes slow,
sometimes it even goes backward, but it does try to tell you when you
are late.

--David

[*] 'whiterabbit' would be more descriptive, but that's longer than
turnip.
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