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, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_monitors.h b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_monitors.h
index fb11dbbd22..9972890db7 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_monitors.h
+++ b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_monitors.h
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@
 /* Type tags for monitors */
 #define MON_ORIGIN 1
 #define MON_TARGET 3
+#define MON_TIME_OFFSET 7
 
 /* Type tags for links */
 #define LINK_PID 1   /* ...Or port */
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@ typedef struct erts_monitor_or_link {
 typedef struct erts_monitor {
     struct erts_monitor *left, *right; 
     Sint16 balance;
-    Uint16 type;  /* MON_ORIGIN | MON_TARGET */
+    Uint16 type;  /* MON_ORIGIN | MON_TARGET | MON_TIME_OFFSET */
     Eterm ref;
     Eterm pid;    /* In case of distributed named monitor, this is the
 		     nodename atom in MON_ORIGIN process, otherwise a pid or