Time Library

The (scheme time) library provides access to time-related values.

For more information see the R⁷RS Scheme Specification.

• current-jiffy
• current-second
• jiffies-per-second

current-jiffy

(current-jiffy)

Get the number of jiffies since the program started. This function can return the same value if the program runs longer than approximately 72 minutes on a 32-bit platform.

current-second

(current-second)

Get the current number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.

jiffies-per-second

(jiffies-per-second)

The number of jiffies per second.