Input.TimeSinceEpoch question

[Niranjan Rao]

Greetings,

Input.TimeSinceEpoch object as defined at https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Input/#type-TimeSinceEpoch says UTC time in seconds, counted from January 1, 1970.

Looking at https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:content/browser/devtools/protocol/input_handler.cc;drc=aac75e1d42c143ae268bd6adfdec9191f2cc1c33;l=125, it looks like base::TimeTicks::UnixEpoch() is being added to the value.

My understanding is this will cause the value to be almost doubled as input parameter is UTC time in seconds.

Is my understanding correct?

Regards,

Niranjan

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[Benedikt Meurer]

Hey Niranjan,

I'm not sure I understand the question correctly, so my response might not necessarily help you.

In DispatchKeyEvent(), you see that timestamp is expected to be passed as UTC time in seconds since the epoch, which is translated by the call to GetEventTimeTicks() to proper base::TimeTicks that Chromium uses internally.

HTH,

Benedikt

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[Niranjan Rao]

Hi Benedikt,

Thank you for the response. You can blame it on my lack of understanding of chromium code.

Here is what I am trying to say

As per documentation, I need to send epoch seconds - number of seconds since Jan 1st, 1970.

If I look at input_handler.cc, it has following code. To me this looks like timeStamp value which is already epoch seconds and you are adding UnixEpoch to that. Not sure if there's is other base functions/macros creating magic.

base::TimeTicks GetEventTimeTicks(const Maybe<double>& timestamp) {

// Convert timestamp, in seconds since unix epoch, to an event timestamp

// which is time ticks since platform start time.

return timestamp.has_value()

? base::Seconds(timestamp.value()) + base::TimeTicks::UnixEpoch()

: base::TimeTicks::Now();

}

Regards,

Niranjan

On 4/22/24 22:11, Benedikt Meurer wrote:

Hey Niranjan, I'm not sure I understand the question correctly, so my response might not necessarily help you. In DispatchKeyEvent(), you see that timestamp is expected to be passed as UTC time in seconds since the epoch, which is translated

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[Andrey Kosyakov]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 2:06 PM Niranjan Rao <nr...@paymentus.com> wrote:

Greetings,

Input.TimeSinceEpoch object as defined at https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Input/#type-TimeSinceEpoch says UTC time in seconds, counted from January 1, 1970.

Looking at https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:content/browser/devtools/protocol/input_handler.cc;drc=aac75e1d42c143ae268bd6adfdec9191f2cc1c33;l=125, it looks like base::TimeTicks::UnixEpoch() is being added to the value.

My understanding is this will cause the value to be almost doubled as input parameter is UTC time in seconds.

Is my understanding correct?

base::TimeTicks::UnixEpoch() is a value of TimeTicks at Epoch. So if you were to sent 0, adding base::TimeTicks::UnixEpoch() would yield TimeTicks value for January 1, 1970, and if you were to send 1713830400, adding base::TimeTicks::UnixEpoch() would yield time ticks representation equal to April, 23, 2024. Note the resulting value is of a TimeTicks type and may as well use some internal time base (and the value of base::TimeTicks::UnixEpoch() is not necessarily positive).

Here's a test that covers how timestamps are interpreted, you can use it as a base if you'd like to explore how things work.

Best regards,

Andrey.