diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fa69e4a4..c4df6844 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Changes in 2.0.3-alpha:
  o New functions to explicitly reference a socket used by an evhttp object. Patches from David Reiss.
  o When we send a BEV_EVENT_CONNECTED to indicate connected status, we no longer invoke the write callback as well unless we actually wrote data too.
  o If the kernel tells us that there are a negative number of bytes to read from a socket, do not believe it.  Fixes bug 2841177; found by Alexander Pronchenkov.
+ o Do not detect whether we have monotonic clock support every time a new event base is created: instead do it only once.  Patch taken from Chromium.
+
 
 Changes in 2.0.2-alpha:
  o Add a new flag to bufferevents to make all callbacks automatically deferred.
diff --git a/event.c b/event.c
index 5713f62e..6a509e3f 100644
--- a/event.c
+++ b/event.c
@@ -151,9 +151,15 @@ detect_monotonic(void)
 {
 #if defined(_EVENT_HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME) && defined(CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
 	struct timespec	ts;
+	static int use_monotonic_initialized = 0;
+
+	if (use_monotonic_initialized)
+		return;
 
 	if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts) == 0)
 		use_monotonic = 1;
+
+	use_monotonic_initialized = 1;
 #endif
 }