I think I remember there being a way from kotlin common to access the equivalent of `System.current...

# multiplatform

[spierce7]

I think I remember there being a way from kotlin common to access the equivalent of System.currentTimeMillis(). I can’t find it anywhere though. How do I do this?

[kpgalligan]

You need to write an expect/actual for that, unless something has changed

[spierce7]

I thought I saw something in the change log notes, but I guess I imagined that

[Arkadii Ivanov]

Maybe Duration? It's experimental as of now and used for conversion, I believe.

[louiscad]

Look in kotlin.time package since 1.3.50

[spierce7]

I checked there @louiscad but couldn’t find it there.

[ilya.gorbunov]

kotlin.time package doesn't have that function, but it can provide some alternatives dependending on what higher level task you need it for.

[spierce7]

@ilya.gorbunov give me an idea of what you mean

[ilya.gorbunov]

I.e. why do you need currentTimeMillis?

[spierce7]

so I can compare it to a server given timestmap to see if an auth token is expired

[ilya.gorbunov]

So it should be some source of time both server and client agree on? I'm afraid we have no such API in mpp standard library.

[spierce7]

@ilya.gorbunov any news on when we can expect an mpp date library?

[ilya.gorbunov]

We'll show prototype as soon as it is ready.

[spierce7]

@ilya.gorbunov you guys are actually developing it?

[alex009]

@spierce7 use getCurrentMilliSeconds from https://github.com/icerockdev/moko-core#current-milliseconds (if you work on mobile platforms)

[kpgalligan]

@ilya.gorbunov I’m curious about the date library. I’ve been working on a rough port of Java’s time library. If you’ve got something in the works currently I’d probably not put a lot more effort into it.