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authorRickard Green <[email protected]>2014-12-17 22:18:27 +0100
committerRickard Green <[email protected]>2015-03-20 15:28:53 +0100
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Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc')
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/calendar.xml6
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/file_sorter.xml6
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml9
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/timer.xml10
4 files changed, 17 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/calendar.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/calendar.xml
index e32a639b81..d8193a9ec2 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/calendar.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/calendar.xml
@@ -270,7 +270,8 @@
<fsummary>Convert now to local date and time</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>This function returns local date and time converted from
- the return value from <c>erlang:now()</c>.</p>
+ the return value from
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#timestamp/0"><c>erlang:timestamp/0</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -279,7 +280,8 @@
<fsummary>Convert now to date and time</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>This function returns Universal Coordinated Time (UTC)
- converted from the return value from <c>erlang:now()</c>.</p>
+ converted from the return value from
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#timestamp/0"><c>erlang:timestamp/0</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/file_sorter.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/file_sorter.xml
index 16572df3c5..c069333c29 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/file_sorter.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/file_sorter.xml
@@ -105,9 +105,9 @@
<c>file:get_cwd()</c> is used instead. The names of
temporary files are derived from the Erlang nodename
(<c>node()</c>), the process identifier of the current Erlang
- emulator (<c>os:getpid()</c>), and a timestamp
- (<c>erlang:now()</c>); a typical name would be
- <c>fs_mynode@myhost_1763_1043_337000_266005.17</c>, where
+ emulator (<c>os:getpid()</c>), and a unique integer
+ (<c>erlang:unique_integer([positive])</c>); a typical name would be
+ <c>fs_mynode@myhost_1763_4711.17</c>, where
<c>17</c> is a sequence number. Existing files will be
overwritten. Temporary files are deleted unless some
uncaught EXIT signal occurs.
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
index e001058e19..2cc621ffc3 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
@@ -70,12 +70,11 @@
<desc>
<p>Seeds random number generation with integer values in the process
dictionary, and returns the old state.</p>
- <p>One way of obtaining a seed is to use the BIF <c>now/0</c>:</p>
+ <p>One easy way of obtaining a unique value to seed with is to:</p>
<code type="none">
- ...
- {A1,A2,A3} = now(),
- random:seed(A1, A2, A3),
- ...</code>
+ random:seed(<seealso marker="erts:erlang#phash2/1">erlang:phash2</seealso>([<seealso marker="erts:erlang#node/0">node()</seealso>]),
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#monotonic_time/0">erlang:monotonic_time()</seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#unique_integer/0">erlang:unique_integer()</seealso>)</code>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/timer.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/timer.xml
index eca9a72d36..791a29689e 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/timer.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/timer.xml
@@ -217,12 +217,14 @@
</func>
<func>
<name name="now_diff" arity="2"/>
- <fsummary>Calculate time difference between <c>now/0</c>timestamps</fsummary>
+ <fsummary>Calculate time difference between timestamps</fsummary>
<type_desc variable="Tdiff">In microseconds</type_desc>
<desc>
<p>Calculates the time difference <c><anno>Tdiff</anno> = <anno>T2</anno> - <anno>T1</anno></c> in
- <em>microseconds</em>, where <c><anno>T1</anno></c> and <c><anno>T2</anno></c> probably
- are timestamp tuples returned from <c>erlang:now/0</c>.</p>
+ <em>microseconds</em>, where <c><anno>T1</anno></c> and <c><anno>T2</anno></c>
+ are timestamp tuples on the same format as returned from
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#timestamp/0"><c>erlang:timestamp/0</c></seealso>,
+ or <seealso marker="kernel:os#timestamp/0"><c>os:timestamp/0</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -234,7 +236,7 @@
</func>
<func>
<name name="minutes" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Converts <c>Minutes</c>to <c>Milliseconds</c>.</fsummary>
+ <fsummary>Converts <c>Minutes</c> to <c>Milliseconds</c>.</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Return the number of milliseconds in <c><anno>Minutes</anno></c>.</p>
</desc>