Re: time() built-in

• Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 22:53:16 PDT
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  Martian <wsmyth@wichita.fn.net>
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > static package
> > bf_us_time(Var arglist, Byte next, void *vdata, Objid progr)

> Seems a bit misleading of a name for the function to me... I think
> ftime() (fp time) would be more accurate, since the result is still in
> seconds.

True, but originally, it returned a list, {seconds, microseconds}, so I called it us_time.
When floats were introduced, I changed its return type.

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