time.timeout_clock? Everyone knows what that will be for and we won't have to make silly theoretical claims about its properties and expected uses.
If no one else looks before I next get to a PC I'll dig up the clock/timing source used for select and friends, and find any corresponding syscall that retrieves it for Linux.
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