Consider switching timing to time.monotonic()

[icook]

All timing currently relies on system clock. It would be better to use monotonic.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.monotonic

[ericecook]

This requires Python 3 unless you want to use something like https://pypi.python.org/pypi/monotonic/

[icook]

Yeah, it's mostly a pipe dream since I don't remember feeling good about the quality of that module. Ideally we would switch to Python3 with guv, but that would require a big rewrite in some places. There's not a great resolution for this, but it's consequences are pretty minor as long as ntpd is being run. Perhaps adding ntpd to the production recommendations list would be good.

[ericecook]

Yea I hear that. Last time I looked at guv it was still a bit greener than I'd like, although it looks like dev work is ongoing