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2015-03-20 | Introduce a new time API | Rickard Green | |
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. | |||
2013-10-01 | erts: Fix time_SUITE:consistency to work over turn of the month | Sverker Eriksson | |
2011-12-08 | Change name of bif universaltime_to_seconds/1 | Björn-Egil Dahlberg | |
* erlang:universaltime_to_seconds/1 changed to erlang:universaltime_to_posixtime/1 * erlang:seconds_to_universaltime/1 changed to erlang:posixtime_to_universaltime/1 Let prim_file.erl reflect these changes. | |||
2011-12-08 | Testcase for utc <-> seconds conversion | Björn-Egil Dahlberg | |
2011-03-11 | Update copyright years | Björn-Egil Dahlberg | |
2011-02-17 | Rename Suite Callback to Common Test Hook | Lukas Larsson | |
2011-02-17 | Fix formatting for emulator | Lukas Larsson | |
2011-02-17 | Add init_per_suite and end_per_suite | Lukas Larsson | |
2011-02-17 | Add ts_install_scb to suite/0 | Lukas Larsson | |
2011-02-17 | Update emulator tests to conform with common_test standard | Lukas Larsson | |
2010-06-23 | Teach erl_time_sup to handle timezones w/o DST on FreeBSD as on other platforms | Patrik Nyblom | |
This change handles erlang:localtime_to_universaltime(...,true) in timezones without DST in a consistent way over platforms. Specifically BSD did return an (accurate) -1 from mktime, which blew things up. Now all platforms regard no DST as a DST with delta zero. Linux, SunOS, MacOS etc already did this, why the behaviour on BSD was updated to the slightly incorrect one instead of breaking backward compatibility on most other platforms. Before this change, erlang:localtime_to_universaltime({{2008, 8, 1}, {0, 0, 0}},true) would return {1969, 12, 31}, {23, 59, 59}} when TZ=UTC on FreeBSD, now it mimics the behaviour of other systems and returns {{2008, 8, 1},{0, 0, 0}}. The problem was originally reported by Paul Guyot on erlang-bugs mailing list: http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-bugs/2008-November/001077.html This correction replaces earlier BSD specific open source patches for this problem. | |||
2009-11-20 | The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03 | Erlang/OTP | |