Re: [Scheme-reports] No procedure to ask the current time?

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <j_p@x>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:59:04PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Jeronimo Pellegrini scripsit:
> 
> > > for systems with no clock or concept of time,
> > > this could be made optional. Alternately, it could
> > > simply be a counter, sufficient to show relative
> > > ordering of events but not exact durations
> > 
> > So it would actually not exclude any devices.
> 
> I think that would undermine the utility of anything called "current-seconds".
> If it doesn't know the current UTC time, it should return #f.

I agree -- returning #f would be good!

J.


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