playdate.getTime().millisecond is always 0 in Simulator (Linux)

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On the PlaydateSimulator (I'm on Linux), the millisecond field of playdate.getTime() appears to always be 0. It works as expected on the actual Playdate.

This isn't specifically important to me; I was just using it for print() logging as I was exploring the API. Sub-second timing information is available in the Simulator from playdate.getSecondsSinceEpoch(), playdate.getElapsedTime() and playdate.getCurrentTimeMilliseconds().

To reproduce

  1. Create a Playdate project whose main.lua consists of:

    import "CoreLibs/object"

local gfx = playdate.graphics

playdate.display.setRefreshRate(5)

function playdate.update()
        gfx.clear()
        gfx.drawText(tostring(playdate.getTime().millisecond), 10,10)
        printTable(playdate.getTime())
end

  2. Compile it

  3. Run it in PlaydateSimulator.

Expected behavior: number of screen changes between various values from 0 through 999. Console window includes lines like "[millisecond] = 0," where the number similarly changes to various values from 0 through 999.

Observed behavior: both numbers remain 0.

This same program, when installed on my actual Playdate, does display changing numbers on the screen.

2

Thanks for the report, I'll take a look!