From 47b8439cd85240491c712dbdf1916504d6e70f8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Fitschen <me@jue.yt>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:45:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] sys/evtimer: add helper for retrieving the current system
 time

---
 sys/include/evtimer.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sys/include/evtimer.h b/sys/include/evtimer.h
index da8dc9a1ef..f4d7580350 100644
--- a/sys/include/evtimer.h
+++ b/sys/include/evtimer.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include <stdint.h>
 
 #include "xtimer.h"
+#include "timex.h"
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
@@ -105,6 +106,22 @@ void evtimer_del(evtimer_t *evtimer, evtimer_event_t *event);
  */
 void evtimer_print(const evtimer_t *evtimer);
 
+/**
+ * @brief   Return the current system time in msec
+ */
+static inline uint32_t evtimer_now_msec(void)
+{
+    return xtimer_now_usec64() / US_PER_MS;
+}
+
+/**
+ * @brief   Return the current system time in minutes
+ */
+static inline uint32_t evtimer_now_min(void)
+{
+    return xtimer_now_usec64() / (US_PER_SEC * SEC_PER_MIN);
+}
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif