Introduce a new time API

The old time API is based on erlang:now/0. The major issue with
erlang:now/0 is that it was intended to be used for so many
unrelated things. This tied these unrelated operations together
and unnecessarily caused performance, scalability as well as
accuracy, and precision issues for operations that do not need
to have such issues. The new API spreads different functionality
over multiple functions in order to improve on this.

The new API consists of a number of new BIFs:
- erlang:convert_time_unit/3
- erlang:monotonic_time/0
- erlang:monotonic_time/1
- erlang:system_time/0
- erlang:system_time/1
- erlang:time_offset/0
- erlang:time_offset/1
- erlang:timestamp/0
- erlang:unique_integer/0
- erlang:unique_integer/1
- os:system_time/0
- os:system_time/1

and a number of extensions of existing BIFs:
- erlang:monitor(time_offset, clock_service)
- erlang:system_flag(time_offset, finalize)
- erlang:system_info(os_monotonic_time_source)
- erlang:system_info(time_offset)
- erlang:system_info(time_warp_mode)
- erlang:system_info(time_correction)
- erlang:system_info(start_time)

See the "Time and Time Correction in Erlang" chapter of the
ERTS User's Guide for more information.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/atom.names b/erts/emulator/beam/atom.names
index 5d06a32941..ced35be265 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/beam/atom.names
+++ b/erts/emulator/beam/atom.names
@@ -144,9 +144,11 @@ atom catchlevel
 atom cd
 atom cdr
 atom cflags
+atom CHANGE='CHANGE'
 atom characters_to_binary_int
 atom characters_to_list_int
 atom clear
+atom clock_service
 atom close
 atom closed
 atom code
@@ -156,6 +158,7 @@ atom compat_rel
 atom compile
 atom compressed
 atom config_h
+atom convert_time_unit
 atom connect
 atom connected
 atom connection_closed
@@ -236,7 +239,7 @@ atom first
 atom firstline
 atom flags
 atom flush
-atom flush_monitor_message
+atom flush_monitor_messages
 atom force
 atom format_cpu_topology
 atom free
@@ -344,6 +347,8 @@ atom message_queue_len
 atom messages
 atom meta
 atom meta_match_spec
+atom micro_seconds
+atom milli_seconds
 atom min_heap_size
 atom min_bin_vheap_size
 atom minor_version
@@ -354,12 +359,15 @@ atom monitored_by
 atom monitor
 atom monitor_nodes
 atom monitors
+atom monotonic
 atom more
 atom multi_scheduling
 atom multiline
+atom nano_seconds
 atom name
 atom named_table
 atom namelist
+atom native
 atom native_addresses
 atom Neq='=/='
 atom Neqeq='/='
@@ -450,6 +458,7 @@ atom ports
 atom port_count
 atom port_limit
 atom port_op
+atom positive
 atom print
 atom priority
 atom private
@@ -509,6 +518,7 @@ atom schedulers_online
 atom scheme
 atom scientific
 atom scope
+atom seconds
 atom sensitive
 atom sequential_tracer
 atom sequential_trace_token
@@ -554,6 +564,7 @@ atom term_to_binary_trap
 atom this
 atom thread_pool_size
 atom threads
+atom time_offset
 atom timeout
 atom timeout_value
 atom Times='*'