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monotonic time not supplied by current-time |
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Sat, 1 Apr 2017 12:18:38 +0100 |
The SRFI-19 current-time function can return several flavours of the
current time:
scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (srfi srfi-19))
scheme@(guile-user)> (current-time time-utc)
$1 = #<time type: time-utc nanosecond: 727666000 second: 1491045256>
scheme@(guile-user)> (current-time time-tai)
$2 = #<time type: time-tai nanosecond: 414752000 second: 1491045294>
scheme@(guile-user)> (current-time time-monotonic)
$3 = #<time type: time-tai nanosecond: 814494000 second: 1491045297>
The last of these three is erroneous: a time structure of type
time-monotonic was requested and must be returned, but instead the
type is time-tai. Although the implementation gives these two time
types numerically identical behaviour, it does treat them as nominally
distinct in other operations:
scheme@(guile-user)> (eqv? time-tai time-monotonic)
$4 = #f
scheme@(guile-user)> (julian-day->time-tai 2450000)
$5 = #<time type: time-tai nanosecond: 0 second: 813240029>
scheme@(guile-user)> (julian-day->time-monotonic 2450000)
$6 = #<time type: time-monotonic nanosecond: 0 second: 813240029>
-zefram
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Re: bug#26329: monotonic time not supplied by current-time |
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Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:10:15 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat 01 Apr 2017 13:18, Zefram <address@hidden> writes:
> The SRFI-19 current-time function can return several flavours of the
> current time:
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (srfi srfi-19))
> scheme@(guile-user)> (current-time time-utc)
> $1 = #<time type: time-utc nanosecond: 727666000 second: 1491045256>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (current-time time-tai)
> $2 = #<time type: time-tai nanosecond: 414752000 second: 1491045294>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (current-time time-monotonic)
> $3 = #<time type: time-tai nanosecond: 814494000 second: 1491045297>
>
> The last of these three is erroneous: a time structure of type
> time-monotonic was requested and must be returned, but instead the
> type is time-tai.
Thanks for the report; fixed. Patches welcome too.
Andy
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