Index: Python/pythonrun.c
===================================================================
--- Python/pythonrun.c	(revision 82921)
+++ Python/pythonrun.c	(working copy)
@@ -268,6 +268,8 @@
     /* Initialize _warnings. */
     _PyWarnings_Init();
 
+    _PyTime_Init();
+
     initfsencoding();
 
     if (install_sigs)
Index: PCbuild/pythoncore.vcproj
===================================================================
--- PCbuild/pythoncore.vcproj	(revision 82921)
+++ PCbuild/pythoncore.vcproj	(working copy)
@@ -876,6 +876,10 @@
 				>
 			</File>
 			<File
+				RelativePath="..\Include\pytime.h"
+				>
+			</File>
+			<File
 				RelativePath="..\Include\pymem.h"
 				>
 			</File>
@@ -1768,6 +1772,10 @@
 				>
 			</File>
 			<File
+				RelativePath="..\Python\pytime.c"
+				>
+			</File>
+			<File
 				RelativePath="..\Python\pystate.c"
 				>
 			</File>
Index: Include/Python.h
===================================================================
--- Include/Python.h	(revision 82921)
+++ Include/Python.h	(working copy)
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
 #error "PYMALLOC_DEBUG requires WITH_PYMALLOC"
 #endif
 #include "pymath.h"
+#include "pytime.h"
 #include "pymem.h"
 
 #include "object.h"
Index: Makefile.pre.in
===================================================================
--- Makefile.pre.in	(revision 82921)
+++ Makefile.pre.in	(working copy)
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@
 		Python/pymath.o \
 		Python/pystate.o \
 		Python/pythonrun.o \
+		Python/pytime.o \
 		Python/structmember.o \
 		Python/symtable.o \
 		Python/sysmodule.o \
@@ -698,6 +699,7 @@
 		Include/pystrtod.h \
 		Include/pythonrun.h \
 		Include/pythread.h \
+		Include/pytime.h \
 		Include/rangeobject.h \
 		Include/setobject.h \
 		Include/sliceobject.h \
Index: Modules/datetimemodule.c
===================================================================
--- Modules/datetimemodule.c	(revision 82921)
+++ Modules/datetimemodule.c	(working copy)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 #include <time.h>
 
-#include "timefuncs.h"
+#include "_time.h"
 
 /* Differentiate between building the core module and building extension
  * modules.
@@ -4166,37 +4166,10 @@
 static PyObject *
 datetime_best_possible(PyObject *cls, TM_FUNC f, PyObject *tzinfo)
 {
-#ifdef HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
-    struct timeval t;
-
-#ifdef GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ
-    gettimeofday(&t);
-#else
-    gettimeofday(&t, (struct timezone *)NULL);
-#endif
+    _PyTime_timeval t;
+    _PyTime_gettimeofday(&t);
     return datetime_from_timet_and_us(cls, f, t.tv_sec, (int)t.tv_usec,
                                       tzinfo);
-
-#else   /* ! HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY */
-    /* No flavor of gettimeofday exists on this platform.  Python's
-     * time.time() does a lot of other platform tricks to get the
-     * best time it can on the platform, and we're not going to do
-     * better than that (if we could, the better code would belong
-     * in time.time()!)  We're limited by the precision of a double,
-     * though.
-     */
-    PyObject *time;
-    double dtime;
-
-    time = time_time();
-    if (time == NULL)
-        return NULL;
-    dtime = PyFloat_AsDouble(time);
-    Py_DECREF(time);
-    if (dtime == -1.0 && PyErr_Occurred())
-        return NULL;
-    return datetime_from_timestamp(cls, f, dtime, tzinfo);
-#endif  /* ! HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY */
 }
 
 /* Return best possible local time -- this isn't constrained by the
Index: Modules/timemodule.c
===================================================================
--- Modules/timemodule.c	(revision 82921)
+++ Modules/timemodule.c	(working copy)
@@ -3,22 +3,10 @@
 
 #include "Python.h"
 #include "structseq.h"
-#include "timefuncs.h"
+#include "_time.h"
 
 #define TZNAME_ENCODING "utf-8"
 
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-#if defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) && defined(HAVE_FTIME)
-  /*
-   * floattime falls back to ftime when getttimeofday fails because the latter
-   * might fail on some platforms. This fallback is unwanted on MacOSX because
-   * that makes it impossible to use a binary build on OSX 10.4 on earlier
-   * releases of the OS. Therefore claim we don't support ftime.
-   */
-# undef HAVE_FTIME
-#endif
-#endif
-
 #include <ctype.h>
 
 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
@@ -29,13 +17,6 @@
 #include <io.h>
 #endif
 
-#ifdef HAVE_FTIME
-#include <sys/timeb.h>
-#if !defined(MS_WINDOWS) && !defined(PYOS_OS2)
-extern int ftime(struct timeb *);
-#endif /* MS_WINDOWS */
-#endif /* HAVE_FTIME */
-
 #if defined(__WATCOMC__) && !defined(__QNX__)
 #include <i86.h>
 #else
@@ -946,44 +927,12 @@
     return m;
 }
 
-
-/* Implement floattime() for various platforms */
-
 static double
 floattime(void)
 {
-    /* There are three ways to get the time:
-      (1) gettimeofday() -- resolution in microseconds
-      (2) ftime() -- resolution in milliseconds
-      (3) time() -- resolution in seconds
-      In all cases the return value is a float in seconds.
-      Since on some systems (e.g. SCO ODT 3.0) gettimeofday() may
-      fail, so we fall back on ftime() or time().
-      Note: clock resolution does not imply clock accuracy! */
-#ifdef HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
-    {
-        struct timeval t;
-#ifdef GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ
-        if (gettimeofday(&t) == 0)
-            return (double)t.tv_sec + t.tv_usec*0.000001;
-#else /* !GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ */
-        if (gettimeofday(&t, (struct timezone *)NULL) == 0)
-            return (double)t.tv_sec + t.tv_usec*0.000001;
-#endif /* !GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ */
-    }
-
-#endif /* !HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY */
-    {
-#if defined(HAVE_FTIME)
-        struct timeb t;
-        ftime(&t);
-        return (double)t.time + (double)t.millitm * (double)0.001;
-#else /* !HAVE_FTIME */
-        time_t secs;
-        time(&secs);
-        return (double)secs;
-#endif /* !HAVE_FTIME */
-    }
+    _PyTime_timeval t;
+    _PyTime_gettimeofday(&t);
+    return (double)t.tv_sec + t.tv_usec*0.000001;
 }