> On Mar 26, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Tristan Seligmann <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Currently, as far as I can tell, all implementations of 
> `IReactorTime.seconds()` (excluding twisted.internet.task.Clock, obviously) 
> are just `time.time()`; IOW, the return value is the number of seconds since 
> the beginning of the UNIX epoch in UTC. Are these the intended semantics? The 
> interface docstring doesn't really make this clear at all.

These are the intended semantics, yes.

> There's some commented out code which suggests the implementation used to be 
> `time.clock()` on win32, which would not satisfy these semantics.

I think you're right, but I believe that was simply a bug based on a misreading 
of the somewhat confusing documentation of that function at the time.

> (The background for this question is that I'm writing some code which takes 
> an IReactorTime provider for testing purposes, and I'm wondering if I need a 
> separate provider of `datetime.now()` functionality or not)

We really should have a .seconds() wrapper that returns a datetime, yes, since 
.now() and .utcnow() somewhat subtly are doing I/O.

-glyph


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