[Proposal] DateTime.now_unix/1

[Fernando Tapia Rico]

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

[Allen Madsen]

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

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[Fernando Tapia Rico]

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 <fert...@gmail.com> 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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[Paul Schoenfelder]

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

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