diff --git a/Lib/queue.py b/Lib/queue.py
index 1dc72c4..c3296fe 100644
--- a/Lib/queue.py
+++ b/Lib/queue.py
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@
     import dummy_threading as threading
 from collections import deque
 from heapq import heappush, heappop
-from time import steady as time
+try:
+    from time import monotonic as time
+except ImportError:
+    from time import time
 
 __all__ = ['Empty', 'Full', 'Queue', 'PriorityQueue', 'LifoQueue']