Hi Fab,
If you’re after a scientific timekeeping library, perhaps you’d be interested in a nascent package created by @andyferris and myself - https://github.com/FugroRoames/Chrono.jl ?
The ideas there are geared toward scientific time keeping:
- Time is measured as a duration since the epoch of a clock.
- Many clock types may exist; time measured by one clock may or may not be convertible to time measured by another clock, depending on whether the clocks have been synchronized by a physical experiment.
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Durationis parameterized on both the multiple of the second in which the clock ticks (may be a rational or floating point number), and a storage type. So you can have a clock which ticks in 1/3 femtoseconds, withInt128storage type just as easily as one ticking in days (86400s) with Int32 storage. - There are functions to take the difference between two UTC date times, with correct support for leap seconds.
Honestly, I don’t think we’ve quite settled on the design of Chrono.jl (in particular, regarding the nature and use of clock types, and clarifying the thinking about how the conversion between times as measured by different clocks should be handled). We also haven’t had the chance to work on it for a while, but I’d love for this - or some other package like it - to become a standard for scientific time keeping in julia.
Cheers,
~Chris