Get milliseconds from time and construct time based on milliseconds
bauss
jacobbauss at gmail.com
Tue May 28 18:41:02 UTC 2024
On Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 18:29:17 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 17:37:42 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> I have two questions that I can't seem to find a solution to
>> after looking at std.datetime.
>>
>> First question is how do I get the current time but in
>> milliseconds?
>>
>> Second is how do I construct a time ex. systime or datetime
>> based on milliseconds?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Unixtime might be what you want:
>
> import std;
>
> import std.datetime;
> import std.stdio;
>
> void main() {
> // Get the current time in the UTC time zone
> auto currentTime = Clock.currTime();
>
> // Convert the time to the Unix epoch
> (1970-01-01T00:00:00Z)
> Duration unixTime = currentTime -
> SysTime(DateTime(1970, 1, 1), UTC());
>
> // Get the total milliseconds
> long milliseconds = unixTime.total!"msecs";
>
> // Print the Unix time in milliseconds
> writeln("Unix time in milliseconds: ", milliseconds);
> }
Thanks a lot.
Also figured out the second question based on your result.
Simply doing:
```
SysTime(DateTime(1970, 1, 1), UTC()) + dur!"msecs"(milliseconds)
```
Seems to work.
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