Re: Exposing subsecond precision in current-seconds

[felix . winkelmann]

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 05:36:10PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > > One thing I'm concerned about is that there's current-milliseconds, which
> > > returns the milliseconds since startup, while we'd have current-seconds
> > > and current-microseconds which return the (micro)seconds since the Epoch.
> > >
> >
> > Microseconds since epoch? Are you sure about this?
>
> What else would the new current-microseconds return?

Since startup, or since some undefined point of time. I see no sense in using
an absolute basetime, as such a timing command will in nearly all use cases
be used for relative timing. One should also attempt to reduce the range to
avoid bignum allocation, I think.


felix