[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 37743] Separate clock time functions used by JavaScript from monotonically increasing time needed elsewhere

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37743





--- Comment #39 from James Simonsen <simonjam at chromium.org>  2011-05-31 15:44:11 PST ---
(In reply to comment #38)
> (In reply to comment #37)
> > The hope was that having separate types would discourage people from confusing them with the values returned from currentTime.
> 
> Interesting and clever. Not sure I like it, though. It’s pretty easy to mix integers and floating point numbers by accident anyway.

Agreed. We'd need a class to do it properly and that seems heavy for what we're trying to accomplish.

> > A double of seconds is just as useful for my purposes though, so I'm happy to switch if you'd like.
> 
> I slightly prefer it.

Patch on the way...

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