On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 09:25:06PM -0500, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> Let's call it fulltime() or have two functions realtime() and runtime().
I like realtime and runtime. bfloats in seconds makes sense as well. I
believe they should be able to accomodate bit for bit whatever the
lisp will give. I suggest using the unix epoch (1 jan 1970) because
it's extremely common and well understood. And return the time in
UTC. to convert times perhaps a separate function to deal with time
zones and leap seconds? For timing purposes they won't be important,
but perhaps for creating logs of when things occured they might be.
I also suggest "lisptime" or "lisprealtime" and "lispruntime" which
returns whatever the underlying lisp does.
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