feat(tvix/eval): implement `builtins.currentTime` r/5027

Returns time since epoch in seconds.

This has a slight behaviour difference from Nix, in that we don't pin
the time between REPL entries (Nix pins it for the program lifetime),
but this is probably inconsequential as long as it is pinned during an
evaluation.

Change-Id: I010c02e93097a209d8ad69e278397c7e30e54c86
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6846
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi>
Reviewed-by: wpcarro <wpcarro@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tvix/eval/src/builtins/impure.rs b/tvix/eval/src/builtins/impure.rs
index 41e3805b2d..7073deaaa7 100644
--- a/tvix/eval/src/builtins/impure.rs
+++ b/tvix/eval/src/builtins/impure.rs
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ use std::{
     time::{SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH},
 };
 
-use smol_str::SmolStr;
-
 use crate::{
     value::{Builtin, NixString},
     Value,
@@ -22,5 +20,17 @@ pub(super) fn builtins() -> BTreeMap<NixString, Value> {
         .map(|b| (b.name().into(), Value::Builtin(b)))
         .collect();
 
+    // currentTime pins the time at which evaluation was started
+    {
+        let seconds = match SystemTime::now().duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH) {
+            Ok(dur) => dur.as_secs() as i64,
+
+            // This case is hit if the system time is *before* epoch.
+            Err(err) => -(err.duration().as_secs() as i64),
+        };
+
+        map.insert(NixString::from("currentTime"), Value::Integer(seconds));
+    }
+
     map
 }