[erlang-questions] Current time in milliseconds

[Robert Virding]

Basically Megasecs*1000000 + Secs is the number of seconds from 1/1/1970.

So just now I got

1> now().
{1228,665491,453000}
2> (1228*1000000+655491)/(60*60*24*365).
38.960410039320145

which gives us 38.9 yrs from 1/1/1970.

Microsecs is, of course, the number of micro secs in this seconds.

Robert

2008/12/6 Ahmed Ali <ahmed.nawras@REDACTED>

> Hi,
>
> I found now() function which returns {MegaSecs, Secs, Microsecs}. Now
> the next question is what is MegaSecs? and is Microsecs value is the
> number of microseconds in this second or is it also since zero hour
> (00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970)?
>
> Best regards,
> Ahmed
>
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Ahmed Ali <ahmed.nawras@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I'd like to get the current time in milliseconds. I've been looking
> > around but couldn't find a way to do this in Erlang. Can anyone please
> > help?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Ahmed
> >
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