Nebulex.Time (Nebulex v2.0.0) View Source

Time utilities.

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Returns the current system time in the given time unit.

Returns true if the given timeout is a valid timeout; otherwise, false is returned.

now(System.time_unit()) :: integer()

Returns the current system time in the given time unit.

The unit is set to :millisecond by default.

iex> Nebulex.Time.now()
_milliseconds

timeout?(term()) :: boolean()

Returns true if the given timeout is a valid timeout; otherwise, false is returned.

Valid timeout: :infinity | non_neg_integer().

iex> Nebulex.Time.timeout?(1)
true

iex> Nebulex.Time.timeout?(:infinity)
true

iex> Nebulex.Time.timeout?(-1)
false