net.time4j.base

Interface UnixTime

All Known Subinterfaces:

UniversalTime

All Known Implementing Classes:

Moment, ZonalDateTime

public interface UnixTime

Represents any UNIX timestamp.

Author:

Meno Hochschild

See Also:

TimeScale.POSIX

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	getNanosecond() Yields the nanosecond fraction of current second.
long	getPosixTime() Counts the seconds elapsed since UNIX epoch [1970-01-01T00:00:00Z] in UTC timezone.

Method Detail

getPosixTime

long getPosixTime()

Counts the seconds elapsed since UNIX epoch [1970-01-01T00:00:00Z] in UTC timezone.

Returns:

count of seconds since UNIX-epoch at [1970-01-01T00:00:00Z] without leap seconds in the timezone UTC (Greenwich)

getNanosecond

int getNanosecond()

Yields the nanosecond fraction of current second.

As time unit, the nanosecond is defined as one billionth part of a second).

Returns:

count of nanoseconds as fraction of last second in the range 0 - 999.999.999