Issue #14222: Use the new time.steady() function instead of time.time() for

timeout in queue and threading modules to not be affected of system time
update.

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/queue.py b/Lib/queue.py
index ba608c5a4c..1dc72c4bbe 100644
--- a/Lib/queue.py
+++ b/Lib/queue.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ except ImportError:
     import dummy_threading as threading
 from collections import deque
 from heapq import heappush, heappop
-from time import time
+from time import steady as time
 
 __all__ = ['Empty', 'Full', 'Queue', 'PriorityQueue', 'LifoQueue']
 
diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index 441c7bd903..197dec4fb1 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import sys as _sys
 import _thread
 
-from time import time as _time, sleep as _sleep
+from time import steady as _time, sleep as _sleep
 from traceback import format_exc as _format_exc
 from _weakrefset import WeakSet
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6937a45b51..cb1ec6ddd4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #14222: Use the new time.steady() function instead of time.time() for
+  timeout in queue and threading modules to not be affected of system time
+  update.
+
 - Issue #13248: Remove lib2to3.pytree.Base.get_prefix/set_prefix.
 
 - Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash