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+/**
+ * @file   chrono.h
+ * @author Nat Goodspeed
+ * @date   2021-10-05
+ * @brief  supplement <chrono> with utility functions
+ * 
+ * $LicenseInfo:firstyear=2021&license=viewerlgpl$
+ * Copyright (c) 2021, Linden Research, Inc.
+ * $/LicenseInfo$
+ */
+
+#if ! defined(LL_CHRONO_H)
+#define LL_CHRONO_H
+
+#include <chrono>
+#include <type_traits>              // std::enable_if
+
+namespace LL
+{
+
+// time_point_cast() is derived from https://stackoverflow.com/a/35293183
+// without the iteration: we think errors in the ~1 microsecond range are
+// probably acceptable.
+
+// This variant is for the optimal case when the source and dest use the same
+// clock: that case is handled by std::chrono.
+template <typename DestTimePoint, typename SrcTimePoint,
+          typename std::enable_if<std::is_same<typename DestTimePoint::clock,
+                                               typename SrcTimePoint::clock>::value,
+                                  bool>::type = true>
+DestTimePoint time_point_cast(const SrcTimePoint& time)
+{
+    return std::chrono::time_point_cast<typename DestTimePoint::duration>(time);
+}
+
+// This variant is for when the source and dest use different clocks -- see
+// the linked StackOverflow answer, also Howard Hinnant's, for more context.
+template <typename DestTimePoint, typename SrcTimePoint,
+          typename std::enable_if<! std::is_same<typename DestTimePoint::clock,
+                                                 typename SrcTimePoint::clock>::value,
+                                  bool>::type = true>
+DestTimePoint time_point_cast(const SrcTimePoint& time)
+{
+    // The basic idea is that we must adjust the passed time_point by the
+    // difference between the clocks' epochs. But since time_point doesn't
+    // expose its epoch, we fall back on what each of them thinks is now().
+    // However, since we necessarily make sequential calls to those now()
+    // functions, the answers differ not only by the cycles spent executing
+    // those calls, but by potential OS interruptions between them. Try to
+    // reduce that error by capturing the source clock time both before and
+    // after the dest clock, and splitting the difference. Of course an
+    // interruption between two of these now() calls without a comparable
+    // interruption between the other two will skew the result, but better is
+    // more expensive.
+    const auto src_before = typename SrcTimePoint::clock::now();
+    const auto dest_now   = typename DestTimePoint::clock::now();
+    const auto src_after  = typename SrcTimePoint::clock::now();
+    const auto src_diff   = src_after - src_before;
+    const auto src_now    = src_before + src_diff / 2;
+    return dest_now + (time - src_now);
+}
+
+} // namespace LL
+
+#endif /* ! defined(LL_CHRONO_H) */