[erlang-questions] odd now() behaviour

[Zoltan Lajos Kis]

Hi,

Check the +c emulator flag and its description:
http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html#emu_flags

Regards,
Zoltan.

> Hi,
>
> I am seeing an odd behavior with now() on my laptop running ubuntu 8.04
> with
> R13A.
>
> I had a running erlang shell when I closed the laptop, and the machine
> went
> into suspend mode. The next day when the laptop came out of suspend mode,
> on
> the
> erlang shell,
>
> calendar:local_time().     returned the correct date/time while
>
> calendar:now_to_local_time(now()).    printed out the time which was
> behind
> by the same amount of time as the laptop was suspended.
>
> Is this a bug or the expected behaviour of now()?
>
> Regards,
>   Amit
>