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authorSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2015-09-23 14:48:47 +0200
committerSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2015-10-01 15:43:48 +0200
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erts: Review time correction docs
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<p>To be backwards compatible, <c>erlang:now/0</c>
remains as is, but <em>you are strongly discouraged from using
- it</em>. Much use of <c>erlang:now/0</c>
+ it</em>. Many use cases of <c>erlang:now/0</c>
prevents you from using the new
<seealso marker="#Multi_Time_Warp_Mode">multi-time warp
mode</seealso>, which is an important part of this
@@ -630,14 +630,14 @@
<title>New Erlang Monotonic Time</title>
<p>Erlang monotonic time as such is new as of <c>ERTS</c> 7.0.
It is introduced to detach time measurements, such as elapsed
- time from calendar time. Many programmers want to measure elapsed
- time or specify a time relative to another point in time without
- knowing the involved times in UTC or any other globally defined
- time scale. By introducing a time scale
- with a local definition of where it starts, time that do
- not concern calendar time on that time scale can be managed.
- Erlang monotonic time uses
- such a time scale with a locally defined start.</p>
+ time from calendar time. In many use cases there is a need to
+ measure elapsed time or specify a time relative to another point
+ in time without the need to know the involved times in UTC or
+ any other globally defined time scale. By introducing a time
+ scale with a local definition of where it starts, time that do
+ not concern calendar time can be managed on that time
+ scale. Erlang monotonic time uses such a time scale with a
+ locally defined start.</p>
<p>The introduction of Erlang monotonic time allows
us to adjust the two Erlang times (Erlang