Module: AnkiRecord::Helpers::TimeHelper

Included in:
Card, Collection, Deck, DeckOptionsGroup, Note, NoteType
Defined in:
lib/anki_record/helpers/time_helper.rb

Overview

Helper module to calculate integer time values since the 1970 epoch.

Specifically, the time that has passed since 00:00:00 UTC Jan 1 1970.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#milliseconds_since_epoch ⇒ Object

Returns approximately the number of milliseconds since the 1970 epoch. This is used for some of the primary key ids. To prevent violation of the uniqueness constraint, sleep is called for 1 millisecond.



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# File 'lib/anki_record/helpers/time_helper.rb', line 16

def milliseconds_since_epoch
  sleep 0.001
  DateTime.now.strftime("%Q").to_i
end

#seconds_since_epoch ⇒ Object

Returns approximately the number of seconds since the 1970 epoch.



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# File 'lib/anki_record/helpers/time_helper.rb', line 23

def seconds_since_epoch
  Time.now.to_i
end