You can also use System.system_time/1 as well.

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:34 PM Fernando Tapia Rico <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks for the prompt reply!
>
> I didn't know about :os.system_time(:second), that's exactly what I was
> looking for.
>
> > It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to have a function on
> DateTime that doesn't produce or accept a DateTime.
>
> You are completely right :)
>
> On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 1:21:41 AM UTC+2, Allen Madsen wrote:
>
>> It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to have a function on DateTime
>> that doesn't produce or accept a DateTime.
>>
>> You can use :os.system_time() or :os.system_time(:second) if you want to
>> get straight to the unix time.
>>
>
>> Allen Madsen
>> http://www.allenmadsen.com
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Fernando Tapia Rico <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
> It's a little shortcut but it's the most used method in all the `utils.ex`
>>> of my projects.
>>>
>>>   @doc """
>>>   Returns the current datetime in Unix time.
>>>
>>>   It will return the integer with the given unit, according to
>>> `System.convert_time_unit/3`.
>>>   """
>>>   @spec now_unix(System.time_unit) :: integer
>>>   def now_unix(unit \\ :second) do
>>>     DateTime.utc_now() |> DateTime.to_unix(unit)
>>>   end
>>>
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