How to add time to Clock.currTime

[JohnnyK]

On Saturday, 5 October 2013 at 02:42:49 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Saturday, October 05, 2013 03:31:33 JohnnyK wrote:
>> Wow I appreciate the quick response. Ok I have seen this 
>> before.
>> What is the dur? Where is dur defined? Also I am confused how
>> 300.seconds would work. How can a literal number have 
>> properties?
>
> dur is in core.time as are the aliases for each of the units:
>
> http://dlang.org/phobos/core_time.html#dur
>
> 300.seconds works thanks to UFCS (Universal Function Call 
> Syntax). Any time
> that the compiler sees
>
> x.foo(args);
>
> and foo is not a member function of x, it converts it to
>
> foo(x, args);
>
> So, if there's a free function with that name which will work 
> with those
> arguments, then it will be called (otherwise, you'll get an 
> error, because
> there is no matching function). The parens can be dropped on 
> 300.seconds,
> because the parens are optional on function calls that take no 
> arguments.
> seconds is not actually a property function (it's an alias for 
> dur!"seconds,
> which is not a property function either), but the fact that the 
> parens are
> optional makes it so that you can use it with the same syntax 
> that would be
> used for a getter property.
>
> If you want an overview of std.datetime and the time stuff in 
> Phobos, I suggest
> that you read
>
> http://dlang.org/intro-to-datetime.html
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I appreciate everyone's responses and yes Jonathan that article 
did help.  I know I looked under the article section but I must 
have overlooked this article.