com.cinchapi.concourse.time

Class AtomicClock

Object

AtomicClock

All Implemented Interfaces:

MicrosClock

public class AtomicClock
extends Object
implements MicrosClock

A clock that gives as close to the current time as possible without duplicates in microseconds.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AtomicClock()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	epochMicros() Returns the current time in microseconds since the UNIX epoch (January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC).
long	time() Get the current timestamp (in microseconds), which is guaranteed to be unique.

Methods inherited from class Object

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

Methods inherited from interface MicrosClock

currentTimeMicros

Constructor Detail

AtomicClock

public AtomicClock()

Method Detail

epochMicros

public long epochMicros()

Description copied from interface: MicrosClock

Returns the current time in microseconds since the UNIX epoch (January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC).

Implementations must ensure that the returned value is a strictly increasing timestamp with a resolution of at least one microsecond.

Specified by:

epochMicros in interface MicrosClock

Returns:

the current epoch time in microseconds

time

public long time()

Get the current timestamp (in microseconds), which is guaranteed to be unique.

Returns:

the timestamp.