OpenEuphoria

Strange time() behaviour

• Posted by Leonardo Cecchi <leonardoce at interfree.it> Apr 02, 2007
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In the euphoria reference library I read that time() 
"Return the number of seconds since some fixed point in the past.".

But, if I execute the following code:

procedure test_time()
  atom timer, exit_code

  timer=time()
  exit_code=system_exec("sleep 2s", 2)
  ? time()-timer
end procedure

test_time()

I obtain:

$ exu testtime.e 
0.0002019999999

I think the right result should be a number bigger than 2.
Where I'm wrong?
I'm working with Euphoria 3.0.2/Linux and the result 
is the same with Euphoria SVN.
Thanks,

Leonardo