diff --git a/build/android/app/CMakeLists.txt b/build/android/app/CMakeLists.txt
index 147351e..ee3e594 100644
--- a/build/android/app/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/build/android/app/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ add_library(kaliber SHARED
     ../../../src/base/log.cc
     ../../../src/base/task_runner.cc
     ../../../src/base/thread_pool.cc
-    ../../../src/base/timer.cc
     ../../../src/demo/credits.cc
     ../../../src/demo/demo.cc
     ../../../src/demo/enemy.cc
diff --git a/src/base/BUILD.gn b/src/base/BUILD.gn
index cbe19d7..38341ef 100644
--- a/src/base/BUILD.gn
+++ b/src/base/BUILD.gn
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ source_set("base") {
     "task_runner.h",
     "thread_pool.cc",
     "thread_pool.h",
-    "timer.cc",
     "timer.h",
     "vecmath.h",
   ]
diff --git a/src/base/timer.cc b/src/base/timer.cc
deleted file mode 100644
index 059e271..0000000
--- a/src/base/timer.cc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-#include "base/timer.h"
-
-#include <thread>
-
-namespace base {
-
-Timer::Timer() {
-  Reset();
-}
-
-void Timer::Reset() {
-  gettimeofday(&last_time_, nullptr);
-
-  seconds_passed_ = 0.0f;
-  seconds_accumulated_ = 0.0f;
-}
-
-void Timer::Update() {
-  timeval currentTime;
-  gettimeofday(&currentTime, nullptr);
-  seconds_passed_ =
-      (float)(currentTime.tv_sec - last_time_.tv_sec) +
-      0.000001f * (float)(currentTime.tv_usec - last_time_.tv_usec);
-
-  last_time_ = currentTime;
-
-  seconds_accumulated_ += seconds_passed_;
-}
-
-void Timer::Sleep(float duration) {
-  Timer timer;
-  float accumulator = 0.0;
-  constexpr float epsilon = 0.0001f;
-
-  while (accumulator < duration) {
-    timer.Update();
-    accumulator += timer.GetSecondsPassed();
-    if (duration - accumulator > epsilon) {
-      float sleep_time = duration - accumulator - epsilon;
-      std::this_thread::sleep_for(
-          std::chrono::microseconds((int)(sleep_time * 1000000.0f)));
-    }
-  };
-}
-
-}  // namespace base
diff --git a/src/base/timer.h b/src/base/timer.h
index b1a651f..ba8d72b 100644
--- a/src/base/timer.h
+++ b/src/base/timer.h
@@ -1,31 +1,47 @@
 #ifndef BASE_TIMER_H
 #define BASE_TIMER_H
 
-#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <chrono>
+#include <thread>
 
 namespace base {
 
-class Timer {
+class ElapsedTimer {
  public:
-  Timer();
-  ~Timer() = default;
+  ElapsedTimer() { time_ = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now(); }
 
-  void Reset();
-
-  void Update();
-
-  static void Sleep(float duration);
-
-  float GetSecondsPassed() const { return seconds_passed_; }
-  float GetSecondsAccumulated() const { return seconds_accumulated_; }
+  // Return seconds passed since creating the object.
+  double Elapsed() const {
+    auto current_time = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
+    std::chrono::duration<double> diff = current_time - time_;
+    return diff.count();
+  }
 
  private:
-  float seconds_passed_ = 0.0f;
-  float seconds_accumulated_ = 0.0f;
-
-  timeval last_time_;
+  std::chrono::time_point<std::chrono::high_resolution_clock> time_;
 };
 
+class DeltaTimer {
+ public:
+  DeltaTimer() { time_ = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now(); }
+
+  // Return seconds passed since the last call to this function.
+  double Delta() {
+    auto current_time = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
+    std::chrono::duration<double> diff = current_time - time_;
+    time_ = current_time;
+    return diff.count();
+  }
+
+ private:
+  std::chrono::time_point<std::chrono::high_resolution_clock> time_;
+};
+
+inline void Sleep(double seconds) {
+  std::this_thread::sleep_for(
+      std::chrono::duration<double, std::milli>(seconds * 1000));
+}
+
 }  // namespace base
 
 #endif  // BASE_TIMER_H
diff --git a/src/engine/audio/audio_sink_alsa.cc b/src/engine/audio/audio_sink_alsa.cc
index 9e3cf22..73fc75a 100644
--- a/src/engine/audio/audio_sink_alsa.cc
+++ b/src/engine/audio/audio_sink_alsa.cc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <alsa/asoundlib.h>
 
 #include "base/log.h"
+#include "base/timer.h"
 
 using namespace base;
 
@@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ void AudioSinkAlsa::AudioThreadMain() {
       if (terminate_audio_thread_.load(std::memory_order_relaxed))
         return;
       // Avoid busy-looping.
-      std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(1));
+      Sleep(1);
     }
 
     delegate_->RenderAudio(buffer.get(), num_frames);
diff --git a/src/engine/engine.cc b/src/engine/engine.cc
index a400ba7..ec63947 100644
--- a/src/engine/engine.cc
+++ b/src/engine/engine.cc
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 #include "base/log.h"
 #include "base/task_runner.h"
+#include "base/timer.h"
 #include "engine/animator.h"
 #include "engine/asset/font.h"
 #include "engine/asset/image.h"
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ Engine& Engine::Get() {
 void Engine::Run() {
   Initialize();
 
-  timer_.Reset();
+  DeltaTimer timer;
   float accumulator = 0.0;
   float frame_frac = 0.0f;
 
@@ -83,17 +84,13 @@ void Engine::Run() {
     if (platform_->should_exit())
       return;
 
-    if (!renderer_->IsInitialzed()) {
-      timer_.Reset();
-      input_queue_.clear();
+    if (!renderer_->IsInitialzed())
       continue;
-    }
 
     Draw(frame_frac);
 
     // Accumulate time.
-    timer_.Update();
-    accumulator += timer_.GetSecondsPassed();
+    accumulator += timer.Delta();
 
     // Subdivide the frame time using fixed time steps.
     while (accumulator >= time_step_) {
@@ -511,7 +508,6 @@ void Engine::LostFocus() {
 }
 
 void Engine::GainedFocus(bool from_interstitial_ad) {
-  timer_.Reset();
   audio_mixer_->Resume();
 
   if (game_)
diff --git a/src/engine/engine.h b/src/engine/engine.h
index 2d94ccf..c330a36 100644
--- a/src/engine/engine.h
+++ b/src/engine/engine.h
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 #include "base/random.h"
 #include "base/thread_pool.h"
-#include "base/timer.h"
 #include "base/vecmath.h"
 #include "engine/persistent_data.h"
 #include "engine/platform/platform_observer.h"
@@ -214,7 +213,6 @@ class Engine : public PlatformObserver {
   unsigned int replay_index_ = 0;
 
   base::ThreadPool thread_pool_;
-  base::Timer timer_;
   base::Randomf random_;
 
   void Initialize();