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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-2607: --------------------------------------- GitHub user afine opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/837 KAFKA-2607: Review `Time` interface and its usage You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/afine/kafka KAFKA-2607 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/837.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #837 ---- commit 311d4e06dbc3640d53c896edb23df5a8230df380 Author: Abraham Fine <a...@abrahamfine.com> Date: 2016-01-26T21:21:06Z init commit 871e2f0df2371546ec2e426c3e6d217ce03ac422 Author: Abraham Fine <a...@abrahamfine.com> Date: 2016-01-29T22:00:24Z ashish's review ---- > Review `Time` interface and its usage > ------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2607 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2607 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.8.2.2 > Reporter: Ismael Juma > Labels: newbie > > Two of `Time` interface's methods are `milliseconds` and `nanoseconds` which > are implemented in `SystemTime` as follows: > {code} > @Override > public long milliseconds() { > return System.currentTimeMillis(); > } > @Override > public long nanoseconds() { > return System.nanoTime(); > } > {code} > The issue with this interface is that it makes it seem that the difference is > about the unit (`ms` versus `ns`) whereas it's much more than that: > https://blogs.oracle.com/dholmes/entry/inside_the_hotspot_vm_clocks > We should probably change the names of the methods and review our usage to > see if we're using the right one in the various places. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)