🕓 Time
The Time module provides functionalities for managing time and date within the Xila operating system. It offers APIs to retrieve, manipulate, and format system time.
Features
The Time module includes the following features:
- System and Uptime Management: Functions to retrieve and set the current date and time (since epoch) and system uptime.
- Hardware Abstraction: Provides a consistent interface irrespective of the underlying hardware timers and clocks.
- Time Zones: Basic support for handling different time zones.
- Time Formatting: Utilities to format time and date into human-readable strings.
Dependencies
The Time module relies on a platform-specific time driver to interact with hardware and ensure accurate timekeeping.
Architecture
The Time module utilizes a standard character device to access a monotonic clock source. Upon this foundation, it builds high-level abstractions to manage the system wall clock and date.
Known limitations
There are currently no known limitations.
Future improvements
Planned enhancements for the Time module include:
- Enhanced Time Zone Support: Implementation of comprehensive time zone handling, including automatic daylight saving time adjustments.
- Network Time Protocol (NTP): Integration of NTP client support to synchronize system time with external time servers for high precision.