Sub second time resolution (#6978)

* Add deprecation warnings to recently deprecated procs

* Fix bad usage of the times module

* Introduce sub second resolution

* Fix usage of C's time()

* Switch to nanosecond resolution

* Make Time & Duration opaque again and fix some errors

* Change back to TimeInterval for shorthands

* Fix JS test

* Fix build error for windows

* Undeprecate epochTime

* Documentation and minor changes

* Lots of bugfixes and doc comments

* Attempt to make travis & appveyor green

* Fix edge cases for dealing with the local timezone

* Workaround JS backend overflow/underflow bug

* Use better workaround for not knowing the size of time_t

* Use all available timezones for tests

* Fix indentation

* Add procs for accessing the fractional part of a duration

* Order time units from smallest to largest since it makes more sense

* Include months and years in `TimeUnit`

* Review fix

Author: GULPF

compiler/scriptconfig.nim

@@ -77,8 +77,7 @@ proc setupVM*(module: PSym; cache: IdentCache; scriptName: string;
   cbos copyDir:
     os.copyDir(getString(a, 0), getString(a, 1))
   cbos getLastModificationTime:
-    # depends on Time's implementation!
-    setResult(a, int64(getLastModificationTime(getString(a, 0))))
+    setResult(a, getLastModificationTime(getString(a, 0)).toUnix)
   cbos findExe:
     setResult(a, os.findExe(getString(a, 0)))
 

lib/pure/oids.nim

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ proc genOid*(): Oid =
   proc rand(): cint {.importc: "rand", header: "<stdlib.h>", nodecl.}
   proc srand(seed: cint) {.importc: "srand", header: "<stdlib.h>", nodecl.}
 
-  var t = getTime().int32
+  var t = getTime().toUnix.int32
 
   var i = int32(atomicInc(incr))
 

lib/pure/os.nim

@@ -225,10 +225,10 @@ proc fileNewer*(a, b: string): bool {.rtl, extern: "nos$1".} =
   ## Returns true if the file `a` is newer than file `b`, i.e. if `a`'s
   ## modification time is later than `b`'s.
   when defined(posix):
-    result = getLastModificationTime(a) - getLastModificationTime(b) >= 0
+    result = getLastModificationTime(a) - getLastModificationTime(b) >= DurationZero
     # Posix's resolution sucks so, we use '>=' for posix.
   else:
-    result = getLastModificationTime(a) - getLastModificationTime(b) > 0
+    result = getLastModificationTime(a) - getLastModificationTime(b) > DurationZero
 
 proc getCurrentDir*(): string {.rtl, extern: "nos$1", tags: [].} =
   ## Returns the `current working directory`:idx:.

lib/pure/random.nim

@@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ when not defined(nimscript):
   proc randomize*() {.benign.} =
     ## Initializes the random number generator with a "random"
     ## number, i.e. a tickcount. Note: Does not work for NimScript.
-    let time = int64(times.epochTime() * 1_000_000_000)
-    randomize(time)
+    let now = times.getTime()
+    randomize(convert(Seconds, Nanoseconds, now.toUnix) + now.nanoseconds)
 
 {.pop.}