NAME

Time::Spec - a wrapper arount struct timespec

VERSION

version 0.003

SYNOPSIS

my $spec = Time::Spec->new(1.5);
my_sleeper($spec);
say $spec->to_float;

DESCRIPTION

This holds a time specification, broken down into seconds and nanoseconds. This is typically used by XS modules and not by pure-perl ones.

The object overloads numification to act like a fractional seconds when used as such.

METHODS

new($fractional)

This creates a new Time::Spec object from a fractional amount of time.

new_from_pair($seconds, $nano_seconds)

This creates a new Time::Spec object from the second and nano second values.

sec()

This returns the number of whole seconds.

nsec()

This returns the fractional part of the time specification in nanoseconds.

to_float()

Convert the time back into fractional seconds.

to_pair()

This returns a pair of seconds an nanoseconds of the object.

AUTHOR

Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2025 by Leon Timmermans.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.