...because it's not affected by system clock updates:
http://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.monotonic
A system clock update can mess up a scheduled function
(self.ioloop.call_later(timeout, fun)).
Older Python versions will keep using time.time().
Original issue reported on code.google.com by g.rodola on 7 Apr 2013 at 11:46
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
g.rodola
on 7 Apr 2013 at 11:46