Get current (logically quantized) time
current_time
Returns the current logical time. This is a ‘wall-clock’ time which should typically be pretty similar to Time.now but quantised to a nearby sleep point in the thread. May be quite different to Time.now within a time_warp!
Unlike Time.now, Multiple calls to current_time with no interleaved calls to sleep or sync will return the same value.
Introduced in v3.0
Examples
| # Example 1 |
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puts current_time
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# 2017-03-19 23:37:57 +0000
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| # Example 2 |
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puts "A", Time.now.to_f
puts "B", __system_thread_locals.get(:sonic_pi_spider_time).to_f
puts "C", Time.now.to_f
puts "D", __system_thread_locals.get(:sonic_pi_spider_time).to_f
puts "E", __system_thread_locals.get(:sonic_pi_spider_time).to_f
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# The difference between current_time and Time.now
# See that Time.now is continuous and current_time is discrete
#
# {run: 19, time: 0.0}
# ├─ "A" 1489966042.761211
# ├─ "B" 1489966042.760181
# ├─ "C" 1489966042.761235
# ├─ "D" 1489966042.760181
# └─ "E" 1489966042.760181
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