On 9/21/2015 3:09 AM, Upayavira wrote: > Effectively, all it does is return the value of NOW according to the > request, as the default value. > > You could construct that on a per invocation basis, using > System.getMillis() or whatever.
The millisecond timestamp isn't guaranteed to always increase on every call -- it's not monotonic. http://stackoverflow.com/a/2979239/2665648 If the OS and hardware are capable of doing it, nanoTime IS monotonic, and MIGHT be updated more frequently. Thanks, Shawn
