On 13Mar2012 17:27, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: | I think wallclock() is an awkward name; in other contexts I've seen | "wall clock time" used to mean the time that a clock on the wall would | show, i.e. local time. This matches definition #1 of | http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/wall-time.html (while yours matches | #2 :-).
I think this also. A "wallclock()" function that did not return real world elapsed time seconds would be misleading or at least disconcerting. | Maybe it could be called realtime()? "elapsedtime()?" It is getting a bit long though. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ "Shot my dog today." "Was he mad?" "Well, he weren't too damned pleased." - Rick Tilson, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
