From: "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>
Date: 2013-03-20T10:31:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:53565] [CommonRuby - Feature #8096] introduce Time.current_timestamp


Issue #8096 has been updated by headius (Charles Nutter).


naruse (Yui NARUSE) wrote:
> What class is it?
> If Float, it introduces extra error.
> If Rational, I feel Time is better.

It is a Fixnum:

ext-jruby-local ~/projects/jruby $ jruby -e "def Time.timestamp; java.lang.System.nano_time / 1000; end; loop { p Time.timestamp; sleep 1.5 }"
1363742953730794
1363742955254423
1363742956757052
1363742958259167
1363742959762959
1363742961264507
1363742962765680
1363742964267276
1363742965769053
1363742967270540
1363742968773957
1363742970275904
1363742971777002
1363742973279089
...

I think the goal here is to reduce the amount of allocation needed to get a simple integer timestamp.
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Feature #8096: introduce Time.current_timestamp
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8096#change-37752

Author: vipulnsward (Vipul Amler)
Status: Feedback
Priority: Low
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 


=begin
A lot of scenarios and applications require the use of (({Time.now.to_i})) which is used as current_timestamp in systems.

The introduction of (({Time.current_timestamp})) {or something with similar with different name} would provide implicit integer timestamp instead of going from 
(({Time.now})) -> time_object -> to_i -> integer timestamp value

So instead of

 Time.now.to_i # Outputs => 1363274618

one could use

 Time.current_timestamp # Outputs => 1363274618

=end



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