diff --git a/src/AudioIO.cpp b/src/AudioIO.cpp
index 4459546ff4..10697ec762 100644
--- a/src/AudioIO.cpp
+++ b/src/AudioIO.cpp
@@ -499,6 +499,110 @@ time warp info and AudioIOListener and whether the playback is looped.
    #define UPPER_BOUND 1.0
 #endif
 
+/*
+ Adapt and rename the implementation of PaUtil_GetTime from commit
+ c5d2c51bd6fe354d0ee1119ba932bfebd3ebfacc of portaudio
+ This code is by @Paul-Licameli . Please refer to: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/946 for further credit.
+ */
+#if defined( __APPLE__ )
+
+#include <mach/mach_time.h>
+
+/* Scaler to convert the result of mach_absolute_time to seconds */
+static double machSecondsConversionScaler_ = 0.0;
+
+/* Initialize it */
+static struct InitializeTime { InitializeTime() {
+   mach_timebase_info_data_t info;
+   kern_return_t err = mach_timebase_info( &info );
+   if( err == 0  )
+       machSecondsConversionScaler_ = 1e-9 * (double) info.numer / (double) info.denom;
+} } initializeTime;
+
+static PaTime util_GetTime( void )
+{
+   return mach_absolute_time() * machSecondsConversionScaler_;
+}
+
+#elif defined( __WXMSW__ )
+
+#include "profileapi.h"
+#include "sysinfoapi.h"
+#include "timeapi.h"
+
+static int usePerformanceCounter_;
+static double secondsPerTick_;
+
+static struct InitializeTime { InitializeTime() {
+    LARGE_INTEGER ticksPerSecond;
+
+    if( QueryPerformanceFrequency( &ticksPerSecond ) != 0 )
+    {
+        usePerformanceCounter_ = 1;
+        secondsPerTick_ = 1.0 / (double)ticksPerSecond.QuadPart;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        usePerformanceCounter_ = 0;
+    }
+} } initializeTime;
+
+static double util_GetTime( void )
+{
+    LARGE_INTEGER time;
+
+    if( usePerformanceCounter_ )
+    {
+        /*
+            Note: QueryPerformanceCounter has a known issue where it can skip forward
+            by a few seconds (!) due to a hardware bug on some PCI-ISA bridge hardware.
+            This is documented here:
+            http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q274323&
+            
+            The work-arounds are not very paletable and involve querying GetTickCount
+            at every time step.
+            
+            Using rdtsc is not a good option on multi-core systems.
+            
+            For now we just use QueryPerformanceCounter(). It's good, most of the time.
+        */
+        QueryPerformanceCounter( &time );
+        return time.QuadPart * secondsPerTick_;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+	#if defined(WINAPI_FAMILY) && (WINAPI_FAMILY == WINAPI_FAMILY_APP)
+        return GetTickCount64() * .001;
+	#else
+        return timeGetTime() * .001;
+	#endif
+    }
+}
+
+#elif defined(HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME)
+
+#include <time.h>
+
+static PaTime util_GetTime( void )
+{
+    struct timespec tp;
+    clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &tp);
+    return (PaTime)(tp.tv_sec + tp.tv_nsec * 1e-9);
+}
+
+#else
+
+#include <sys/time.h>
+
+static PaTime util_GetTime( void )
+{
+    struct timeval tv;
+    gettimeofday( &tv, NULL );
+    return (PaTime) tv.tv_usec * 1e-6 + tv.tv_sec;
+}
+
+#endif
+
 using std::max;
 using std::min;
 
@@ -828,7 +932,7 @@ static double SystemTime(bool usingAlsa)
    static_cast<void>(usingAlsa);//compiler food.
 #endif
 
-   return PaUtil_GetTime() - streamStartTime;
+    return util_GetTime() - streamStartTime;
 }
 #endif
 
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 27a13fc528..877c3895f4 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 set( TARGET Sneedacity )
 set( TARGET_ROOT ${topdir}/src )
 
+include (CheckFunctionExists)
+
 message( STATUS "========== Configuring ${TARGET} ==========" )
 
 # Allow modules to link against the Sneedacity executable
@@ -1332,6 +1334,12 @@ import_symbol_define( import_symbol SNEEDACITY_DLL )
 export_symbol_define( export_symbol SNEEDACITY_DLL )
 list( APPEND DEFINES PRIVATE "${export_symbol}" INTERFACE "${import_symbol}" )
 
+# see AudioIO.cpp
+check_function_exists(clock_gettime HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME)
+if(HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME)
+   list( APPEND DEFINES HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME )
+endif()
+
 target_sources( ${TARGET} PRIVATE ${HEADERS} ${SOURCES} ${RESOURCES} ${MAC_RESOURCES} ${WIN_RESOURCES} )
 target_compile_definitions( ${TARGET} PRIVATE ${DEFINES} )
 target_compile_options( ${TARGET} PRIVATE ${OPTIONS} )