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

[Tim Blechmann <tim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

on osx: Main.elapsedTime gives the time since the start of the language,
both are monotonic
on other platforms: no difference, none is monotonic

internally, osx synchronizes the monotonic clock to the system clock,
other platforms only use the system clock ...

tim

>> 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?



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