Hi All,

CogVM has two really nice time primitives 240 and 241. These are available 
via Time class >> #primUTCMicrosecondClock and Time class >> 
#primLocalMicrosecondClock.

But there are two problems with them.
1. They are not available in the Interpreter VM (It has a similar named
primitive - primitiveUtcWithOffset - available as Time class >> 
#primPosixMicrosecondClockWithOffset, but that's not supported in Cog, and 
I'd like to see its behavior changed slightly*)
2. Primitive 240 is available in Pharo under a similar, but slightly 
different name: #primUTCMicrosecondsClock. There are also derived 
"primitive" methods: #primUTCSecondsClock and #primUTCMillisecondsClock.

Questions:
- Which name should we use?
  - #primUTCMicrosecondClock
  - #primUTCMicrosecondsClock
  - something else

- Can/should the interpreter VM support primitive 240 and 241?

- Can/should CogVM support the name primitive primitiveUtcWithOffset?

- Do we want the derived "primitives" #primUTCSecondsClock and 
#primUTCMillisecondsClock in Squeak?


Levente

* The primitive could accept an array as argument and fill that with the 
values if present. This could prevent frequent GCs when the primitive is 
used repeatedly.