primitive Nanos
"""
Collection of utility functions for converting various durations of time
to nanoseconds, for passing to other functions in the time package.
"""
fun from_seconds(t: U64): U64 =>
t * 1_000_000_000
fun from_millis(t: U64): U64 =>
t * 1_000_000
fun from_micros(t: U64): U64 =>
t * 1_000
fun from_seconds_f(t: F64): U64 =>
(t * 1_000_000_000).trunc().u64()
fun from_millis_f(t: F64): U64 =>
(t * 1_000_000).trunc().u64()
fun from_micros_f(t: F64): U64 =>
(t * 1_000).trunc().u64()
fun from_wall_clock(wall: (I64, I64)): U64 =>
((wall._1 * 1000000000) + wall._2).u64()