Why doesn't mktspec() use clock_gettime?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/9/15 6:13 PM, weaselcat wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 02:03:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> cc Sean Kelly
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/core/sync/config.d#L28
>>
>>
>> Looks like that use has been disable with static if (false). What was
>> the reason?
>>
>> A coworker spent a few hours debugging a matter that pointed to this
>> issue. He removed the "false" and replaced CLOCK_REALTIME with
>> CLOCK_MONOTONIC in our druntime tree.
>>
>> Any insight into the matter? How should we address it by supporting
>> multiple clock types portably?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrei
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/998739c

Thanks. What library would that be? Is it unavailable on some platforms? 
If always available, couldn't we just link with it? -- Andrei