Do You Have The Time?

Elixir doesn't come with any standard ways of getting at or working with time. There are packages like Timex out there that we can pull in to our projects. However, if we don't have need for a full-featured date/time library, we can opt for a simpler solution.

Erlang can give us the time.

defmodule TickTock do
  def current_time do
    {hh,mm,ss} = :erlang.time
    "#{hh}:#{mm}:#{ss}"
  end
end

> TickTock.current_time
"11:47:13"