OxL Reference

17.3 Clocks

  • now() -> Time and Instant.now() have the effect time.
  • today(tz: Tz = node.tz) -> Date; the node's time zone is OXL_TZ, UTC by default.
  • cluster.now() -> Hlc is a hybrid logical clock: monotonic and orders events between nodes (Hlcs are comparable and serialisable).

Source: docs/spec/oxl-standard.en.md