On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > 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 > don't think anyone particularly needed "the time in UTC".
I disagree. I think that getting the current time in UTC is basic enough to be awarded a routine and has merit on its own, even disregarding it's usage in profilers. Not to mention that FPGetTickCount returns it's value in an unspecified time unit, what if I want a less disturbed time in miliseconds? A time which doesn't require reading a file to be obtained? (like the perfect Now() should do in UNIX ) > something like FPGetTickCount seems much more appropriate than NowUTC, and I think that they do not exclude one another. > it also solves the problem that some targets may not support returning the > time in UTC. I think that Michael already exposed more then enough the holes in this argument. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
