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The improved time handling is the biggest new feature for most users probably (apart form maps improvements and the new license).

http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/time_correction.html



It totally makes sense that a highly concurrent system would need to start getting really nitty-gritty with time values...


Fred Hebert, author of Learn You Some Erlang has a new postscript to the book about the new way time will be handled in Erlang 18+ :

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/time

(BTW, there's also a talk from Erlang Factory by Lukas Larsson on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfsc2MyP8p8&list=PLWbHc_FXPo... )




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