Questions tagged [time]
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How to have a contract on chain for extended periods of time?
In PPP Larz explains that there's a limit to how long a contract can remain on chain, what is that limit and how do I go about extending it?
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Whats the function to get the current time in Plutus?
Im using the time module in the ledger class to do some custom validation logic, but everything is done as intervals and I cant find the function that gets the current time. What is it?
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How precise is the time inside a plutus script?
It is a known fact that you can calculate time inside a plutus validator script by looking at the txInfoValidRange attribute. Now, since this value is a range and not an exact time, it makes me wonder ...
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Diagnosing a POSIXTime discrepancy
My computer's date command is returning a timestamp wildly different from what testnet wants.
Using this formula,
> slotToEndPOSIXTime testnetConf 55047601
POSIXTime {getPOSIXTime = 1651015217999}
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How to implement Vesting smartcontract with time period longer than 36 hours?
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In third weeks plutus pioneer lecture lars said that Vesting period shouldn't be longer than 36 hours. He argued that this is because time is calculated in slots on-chain and that this ...
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How to PreSign a transaction
im trying to figure out how to sign a smart contract (SC) and have it put on-chain, where it waits until its validation logic returns True.
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To clarify what I mean by signing is the private key ...
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Can you specify an upper and lower bound for the validity period of a transaction?
I want a transaction to only be valid for a certain period of time relative to some specified start time. I thought that maybe I could use Constraints.mustValidateIn (interval firstInterval $ ...
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Is there a way for a validator to get the current time?
Is it possible for a validator to get the current time without it being passed in via the redeemer? My validator is heavily dependent on the time being correct so it would probably be a bad design ...
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Is there a maximum number of transactions a block can hold?
If the network is under heavy use and transactions are being recorded in these blocks faster than normal, is there a cap on the size of the block?
Perhaps the rule is 20 second slot time, or a full ...
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