How to get current time in milliseconds in Haxe?

Question

I need a function that returns the local time in milliseconds on the CPP target.

I tried Haxe's Date class, but Date.now() gives me the time in seconds.

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 03 '19 at 15:30

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Gives the most precise timestamp value (in seconds)

To be clear, I tried this and got millisecond resolution on the cpp target. Sys is available on cpp, cs, java, macro, neko, php and python.

edited Feb 03 '19 at 15:30

Gama11

answered Jan 25 '16 at 21:49

Sam Twidale

Though I must say I find it kinda disturbing that this just has float precision. At least from C++, one is used to much better precision. – TheSHEEEP Jan 27 '16 at 11:22
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I suppose it's easier to implement a single method across platforms if you pass a float back. Here's how it's implemented for cpp: https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hxcpp/blob/735bf91da2059dd2c510596f90f13dbf7345bf56/project/libs/std/Sys.cpp#L507 – Sam Twidale Jan 28 '16 at 16:31
they should really change the documentation and return milliseconds - else if useless unless you see this answer. – cancerbero Jun 24 '19 at 03:50
@TheSHEEEP Remember that haxe floats are 64-bit, so you actually get 56 bits of integer precision. – David Given Sep 04 '20 at 21:22

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 03 '19 at 15:29

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You could try Date.now().getTime(), however:

Returns the timestamp of the date. It might only have a per-second precision depending on the platforms.

edited Feb 03 '19 at 15:29

Gama11

answered Jan 25 '16 at 20:50

Andrew

Doesn't work for cpp target. Maybe I should edit my question. – Enes F. Jan 25 '16 at 21:36
Yes, this only gives me per-second precision on the cpp target i.e: 1453822269000, 1453822270000... – Sam Twidale Jan 26 '16 at 15:33

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 15 '20 at 15:06

A fast way of getting a timestamp would be to use the haxe.Timer.stamp() method.

Example:

import haxe.Timer;

var timestamp:Float = Timer.stamp(); // return a timestamp in seconds with fractions

Note that the value itself might differ depending on platforms, only differences between two values make sense.

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