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Testing framework: add a primitive for wall clock time

E. Rivas requested to merge er433/test/clock-time into dev

Motivation and Context

It could be handy to check current (system) time in the testing framework.

Description

This MR adds a new primitive for retrieving the wallclock on Test.Next.

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  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
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Changelog

The module/namespace Test comes with a new sub-module/namespace called Clock, containing a function for discovering current wall-clock time: val now : unit -> timestamp.

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Edited by E. Rivas

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