From: Benoit Daloze <eregontp@...>
Date: 2013-03-20T23:52:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:53575] Re: [CommonRuby - Feature #8096] introduce Time.current_timestamp

On 19 March 2013 17:56, headius (Charles Nutter) <headius@headius.com> wrote:
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> Issue #8096 has been updated by headius (Charles Nutter).
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>
> A few more thoughts to keep this alive...
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> Implementation in JRuby:
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> def Time.timestamp
>   java.lang.System.nano_time / 1000
> end

That seems to work on Linux and some others, but what about Windows?
It likely happens to be clock_gettime() or such in UNIX.

The doc says "This method can only be used to measure elapsed time and
is not related to any other notion of system or wall-clock time."

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#nanoTime%28%29

> There's also currentTimeMillis, but I think providing sub-ms precision is a good idea. �s seems sufficient to me.
>
> Definitely would like to see this get into 2.1.
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> Feature #8096: introduce Time.current_timestamp
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8096#change-37740
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> Author: vipulnsward (Vipul Amler)
> Status: Feedback
> Priority: Low
> Assignee:
> Category:
> Target version:
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>
> =begin
> A lot of scenarios and applications require the use of (({Time.now.to_i})) which is used as current_timestamp in systems.
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> The introduction of (({Time.current_timestamp})) {or something with similar with different name} would provide implicit integer timestamp instead of going from
> (({Time.now})) -> time_object -> to_i -> integer timestamp value
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> So instead of
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>  Time.now.to_i # Outputs => 1363274618
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> one could use
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>  Time.current_timestamp # Outputs => 1363274618
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> =end
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