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fastc-core-time

fastc-core-time provides monotonic and wall-clock reads plus ISO 8601 formatting and parsing. Reading the clock is a capability — CapTimeRead — because the current time is ambient authority the type system chooses to make explicit.

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capability CapTimeRead

What it ships (v0.1.0)

  • Monotonic and wall clocks
  • ISO 8601 formatting and parsing
  • UTC-only, gated on CapTimeRead

When to use it

Timestamps, timers, and deadlines where clock access should be auditable.

Example

use time::now;

fn stamp(c: ref(CapTimeRead)) -> String {
  return now(c).iso8601();
}
fastc-core-time — minimal usage fastc-core-time v0.1.0

Roadmap

Time-zone support lands in v0.2.

Implements ISO 8601.

Provenance

Like every fastc-core package, fastc-core-time ships with content-hashed, cosign-keyless-signed releases and SLSA L3 provenance. It is vendored, not pulled from a central registry — there is no account to compromise.

See also