From 044cc8e9505285bb29228b5bc57e10778fb43723 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henrik Rydgard <hrydgard@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:35:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] clock_gettime(MONOTONIC) seems more appropriate than
 gettimeofday for our purposes.

Reluctant to do this before 1.0 though so I'll leave it as a pull request for now.
---
 base/timeutil.cpp | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/base/timeutil.cpp b/base/timeutil.cpp
index bab362cc41..d66f24134d 100644
--- a/base/timeutil.cpp
+++ b/base/timeutil.cpp
@@ -60,8 +60,10 @@ double real_time_now() {
 
 		return (double)diff / (double)_frequency;
 	}
-#endif
-
+	struct timespec time;
+	clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, &time);
+	return time.tv_sec + time.tv_nsec / 1.0e9;
+#else
 	static time_t start;
 	struct timeval tv;
 	gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
@@ -70,6 +72,7 @@ double real_time_now() {
 	}
 	tv.tv_sec -= start;
 	return (double)tv.tv_sec + (double)tv.tv_usec / 1000000.0;
+#endif
 }
 
 #endif