net.time4j.scale

Interface TickProvider

public interface TickProvider

This SPI-interface describes how nanoseconds since an arbitrary start time are generated.

Will be evaluated during loading of the class SystemClock. The internal standard implementation uses System.nanoTime().

Since:

3.2/4.1

Author:

Meno Hochschild

Specification:

All implementations must have a public no-arg constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	getNanos() Generates a count of nanoseconds.
String	getPlatform() Determines the name of the platform where this implementation should be used.

Method Detail

getPlatform

String getPlatform()

Determines the name of the platform where this implementation should be used.

Returns:

name of suitable platform which is equivalent to the system property "java.vm.name"

Since:

3.2/4.1

getNanos

long getNanos()

Generates a count of nanoseconds.

Returns:

count of nanosecond ticks since an arbitrary but fixed start time which is typically the boot time

Since:

3.2/4.1