time.monotonic() available from Python 3.3:

- Nicely communicates a narrow intent of "get a local system monotonic
  clock time" instead of possible "get a not necessarily accurate Unix
  time stamp because it needs to be communicated to outside of this
  process/machine" when time.time() is used.
  
- Its result isn't affected by the system clock updates.

There are two classes of time.time() uses changed to time.monotonic()
by this change:

- measuring time taken to run some code.

- setting and checking a "close_at" threshold for for persistent db
  connections (django/db/backends/base/base.py).