Jonas Maebe schrieb:
On 09 Dec 2011, at 13:47, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
I know nothing about OS/2-eCS, but the same arguments as for Go32V2
apply as far as I am concerned. If all these platforms can guarantee
returning correct UTC time, I do not see why we would not introduce it.
Afaik the original point was that some people were interested in some
kind of timestamp that does not jump around (except possibly when
overflowing).
I.e. means to quickly build time *differences*, for performance and
progress display. That's almost the only use for GetTickCount, and for
that purpose the underlying source must be monotonic.
I don't think anyone particularly needed "the time in
UTC". Therefore, something like FPGetTickCount seems much more
appropriate than NowUTC, and it also solves the problem that some
targets may not support returning the time in UTC.
In contrast to Now with local time (with DST and timezones), NowUTC
should return monotonic, platform independent and comparable absolute
time values.
When some (very old) platforms don't support UTC, we could at least
implement something like GetTimeStamp, that returns absolute time values
at least for the current platform. These values should be usable as
unique (monontonic) time stamps in e.g. log files.
DoDi
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