On Mon, 17 May 2021 14:04:24 GMT, Roger Riggs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 8266846: Add java.time.InstantSource
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/time/InstantSource.java line 36:
>
>> 34: * Instances of this interface are used to find the current instant.
>> 35: * As such, an {@code InstantSource} can be used instead of {@link
>> System#currentTimeMillis()}.
>> 36: * <p>
>
> The word 'current' is likely to misleading here. The specification of an
> interface does not have any context in which to describe what the instant
> represents or what it is relative to.
> Given the intended use cases, it is definitely not always related to
> System.currentTimeMillis()
> which is bound to the running system.
> i think the best you could say is that it returns an instant provided by the
> source as does the 'instance()' method.
This is the definition used by `Clock` since Java 8. It is also the purpose of
the interface. ie. this isn't an interface for providing instants in general,
but for providing the _current instant_. I can clarify wrt the meaning of
"current", but I don't see how that word can be avoided.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4016
