more specifically, is there a way to get the current system time, such as in

System.getCurrentTimeMillis()

?

Not yet. The only workaround for now is to use ktor's

GMTDate

makes sense, thanks 👍

or you could use expect/actual because java and kotlin/native both have this method (I don't know if js has this method bc I don't use it)

Yea I'd go with the

expect

solution

The droidconKotlin app has an example of the

expect

solution for `currentTimeMillis`: https://github.com/touchlab/DroidconKotlin/blob/master/sessionize/lib/src/commonMain/kotlin/co/touchlab/sessionize/platform/Functions.kt#L9

thanks, that's very helpful

Well, it depends on what do you need but writing correct posix implementation is not that easy as write a single line of code

Why posix? On Native targets it is in stdlib: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/master/runtime/src/main/cpp/Porting.cpp#L265

Look in kotlin.system package, a multiplatform function like

System.currentTimeMillis()

exists for a start.