[issue31267] threading.Timer object is affected by changes to system time: Python locks should use a monotonic clock if available

2017-10-07 Thread Thomas Keppler
Thomas Keppler added the comment: Hello Victor, thank you for your update on this issue. By looking through the other bug reports you listed, it looks as if measures were implemented but never merged. Am I right with this observation? If so, will we ever see a switch over to monotonic time

[issue31267] threading.Timer object is affected by changes to system time

2017-08-23 Thread Thomas Keppler
New submission from Thomas Keppler: Hi, I have been playing around with threading.Timer objects as timeouts for a project and noticed that my timeouts are affected by system time changes. To test this, I have written a small demonstration script (timer_testcase.py) which you can find in the

[issue31267] threading.Timer object is affected by changes to system time

2017-08-23 Thread Thomas Keppler
Changes by Thomas Keppler : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file47097/test_monotonic.py ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue31267> ___ ___ Python-bug