com.gigaspaces.time

Class RelativeTime

java.lang.Object

com.gigaspaces.time.RelativeTime

All Implemented Interfaces:

ITimeProvider

public final class RelativeTime
extends Object
implements ITimeProvider

ITimeProvider implementation specifying a precise timer, which is not influenced by motions of the wall-clock time.

Returns the current value of the running Java Virtual Machine's high-resolution time source, converted from nanoseconds to milliseconds. This method timeMillis() can only be used to measure elapsed time and is not related to any other notion of system or wall-clock time. The value returned represents milliseconds since some fixed but arbitrary origin time (perhaps in the future, so values may be negative). The same origin is used by all invocations of this method in an instance of a Java virtual machine; other virtual machine instances are likely to use a different origin.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
RelativeTime() Returns a RelativeTime instance based on nanosecond precision.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	isRelative()
long	timeMillis() Returns the current value of the most precise available system timer, in milliseconds.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RelativeTime

public RelativeTime()

Returns a RelativeTime instance based on nanosecond precision.

Method Detail

timeMillis

public long timeMillis()

Returns the current value of the most precise available system timer, in milliseconds. This method is used to measure elapsed time and is not related to any other notion of system or wall-clock time.

Specified by:

timeMillis in interface ITimeProvider

Returns:

The current value of the system timer, in milliseconds.

isRelative

public boolean isRelative()

Specified by:

isRelative in interface ITimeProvider