The monotonic clock will always increase and doesn’t suffer
discontinuities when the user (or NTP) changes the system time. It
may or may not continue to tick during times where the machine is
suspended.
We try to use the clock that corresponds as closely as possible to
the passage of time as measured by system calls such as
poll() but it
may not always be possible to do this.
Another version of this function exists.
GLib.get_monotonic_time returns the time in microseconds.
If you want to support older GLib versions, it is an alternative.
Queries the system monotonic time in nanoseconds.
The monotonic clock will always increase and doesn’t suffer discontinuities when the user (or NTP) changes the system time. It may or may not continue to tick during times where the machine is suspended.
We try to use the clock that corresponds as closely as possible to the passage of time as measured by system calls such as
poll()but it may not always be possible to do this.Another version of this function exists. GLib.get_monotonic_time returns the time in microseconds. If you want to support older GLib versions, it is an alternative.