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+// Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+#include "update_engine/clock.h"
+
+#include <time.h>
+
+namespace chromeos_update_engine {
+
+base::Time Clock::GetWallclockTime() {
+  return base::Time::Now();
+}
+
+base::Time Clock::GetMonotonicTime() {
+  struct timespec now_ts;
+  if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, &now_ts) != 0) {
+    // Avoid logging this as an error as call-sites may call this very
+    // often and we don't want to fill up the disk...
+    return base::Time();
+  }
+  struct timeval now_tv;
+  now_tv.tv_sec = now_ts.tv_sec;
+  now_tv.tv_usec = now_ts.tv_nsec/base::Time::kNanosecondsPerMicrosecond;
+  return base::Time::FromTimeVal(now_tv);
+}
+
+}  // namespace chromeos_update_engine