[Vm-dev] microsecond timing for GC work

[John M McIntosh]

On 2010-01-19, at 2:30 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:

> Would anyone object to the addition of a primitive that answers
> Posix seconds (to some reasonable precision) plus time zone offset?
> This would be a named primitive in addition to John's microsecond
> primitive.


So it would return an array with two items, the microseconds from posix time, and the time zone offset in seconds? 

Isn't there something to let us build a time value using that then?  Also to convert back/forward to squeak epoch based time value? 


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