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Re: [sc-dev] deprecate Date.bootSeconds?

What's the difference between this and Main.elapsedTime?

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Tim Blechmann <tim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i wonder, what's the opinion of people to deprecate bootSeconds from the
> Date class?
>
> * it gives an arbitrary value which is not platform-independent
> (probably time since startup on osx and time since epoch everywhere else)
> * its value is only monotonic under osx
> * it is not documented
>
> in short: every code that depends on it is fragile and one should
> probably use rawSeconds instead ...
>
> thoughts?
>
> tim
>
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