From fb8d042f48f16c8a83b6a56d8a3ebf2ad753138b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarrod Johnson <jbjohnso@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:31:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add monotic time util function

---
 confluent/util.py | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/confluent/util.py b/confluent/util.py
index 677d9def..9bb2e1c4 100644
--- a/confluent/util.py
+++ b/confluent/util.py
@@ -34,3 +34,13 @@ def securerandomnumber(min=0, max=4294967295):
         number = struct.unpack("I",os.urandom(4))[0]
     return number
 
+def monotonic_time():
+    """Return a monotoc time value
+
+    In scenarios like timeouts and such, monotonic timing is preferred.
+    """
+    if (os.name == "posix"):
+        return os.times()[4]
+    else:
+        return time.time()
+    #TODO: windows?