Remove test for timing (already not built since commented out in setup.py).
Add note to NEWS.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_timing.py b/Lib/test/test_timing.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5797833..0000000
--- a/Lib/test/test_timing.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-from test.test_support import verbose
-import timing
-
-r = range(100000)
-if verbose:
- print 'starting...'
-timing.start()
-for i in r:
- pass
-timing.finish()
-if verbose:
- print 'finished'
-
-secs = timing.seconds()
-milli = timing.milli()
-micro = timing.micro()
-
-if verbose:
- print 'seconds:', secs
- print 'milli :', milli
- print 'micro :', micro
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 41d5475..634f168 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -268,6 +268,9 @@
Extension Modules
-----------------
+- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
+ in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
+
- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).