rust/src/libstd/time/mod.rs

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//! Temporal quantification.

#![stable(feature = "time", since = "1.3.0")]

use error::Error;
use fmt;
use ops::{Add, Sub};
use sys::time;

#[stable(feature = "time", since = "1.3.0")]
pub use self::duration::Duration;

mod duration;

/// A measurement of a monotonically increasing clock.
///
/// Instants are always guaranteed to be greater than any previously measured
/// instant when created, and are often useful for tasks such as measuring
/// benchmarks or timing how long an operation takes.
///
/// Note, however, that instants are not guaranteed to be **steady**.  In other
/// words, each tick of the underlying clock may not be the same length (e.g.
/// some seconds may be longer than others). An instant may jump forwards or
/// experience time dilation (slow down or speed up), but it will never go
/// backwards.
///
/// Instants are opaque types that can only be compared to one another. There is
/// no method to get "the number of seconds" from an instant. Instead, it only
/// allows measuring the duration between two instants (or comparing two
/// instants).
#[derive(Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord)]
#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
pub struct Instant(time::Instant);

/// A measurement of the system clock appropriate for timestamps such as those
/// on files on the filesystem.
///
/// Distinct from the `Instant` type, this time measurement **is not
/// monotonic**. This means that you can save a file to the file system, then
/// save another file to the file system, **and the second file has a
/// `SystemTime` measurement earlier than the second**. In other words, an
/// operation that happens after another operation in real time may have an
/// earlier `SystemTime`!
///
/// Consequently, comparing two `SystemTime` instances to learn about the
/// duration between them returns a `Result` instead of an infallible `Duration`
/// to indicate that this sort of time drift may happen and needs to be handled.
///
/// Although a `SystemTime` cannot be directly inspected, the `UNIX_EPOCH`
/// constant is provided in this module as an anchor in time to learn
/// information about a `SystemTime`. By calculating the duration from this
/// fixed point in time, a `SystemTime` can be converted to a human-readable time,
/// or perhaps some other string representation.
#[derive(Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord)]
#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
pub struct SystemTime(time::SystemTime);

/// An error returned from the `duration_from_earlier` method on `SystemTime`,
/// used to learn about why how far in the opposite direction a timestamp lies.
#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
pub struct SystemTimeError(Duration);

#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
impl Instant {
    /// Returns an instant corresponding to "now".
    pub fn now() -> Instant {
        Instant(time::Instant::now())
    }

    /// Returns the amount of time elapsed from another instant to this one.
    ///
    /// # Panics
    ///
    /// This function will panic if `earlier` is later than `self`, which should
    /// only be possible if `earlier` was created after `self`. Because
    /// `Instant` is monotonic, the only time that this should happen should be
    /// a bug.
    pub fn duration_from_earlier(&self, earlier: Instant) -> Duration {
        self.0.sub_instant(&earlier.0)
    }

    /// Returns the amount of time elapsed since this instant was created.
    ///
    /// # Panics
    ///
    /// This function may panic if the current time is earlier than this
    /// instant, which is something that can happen if an `Instant` is
    /// produced synthetically.
    pub fn elapsed(&self) -> Duration {
        Instant::now().duration_from_earlier(*self)
    }
}

#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
impl Add<Duration> for Instant {
    type Output = Instant;

    fn add(self, other: Duration) -> Instant {
        Instant(self.0.add_duration(&other))
    }
}

#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
impl Sub<Duration> for Instant {
    type Output = Instant;

    fn sub(self, other: Duration) -> Instant {
        Instant(self.0.sub_duration(&other))
    }
}

#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
impl fmt::Debug for Instant {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        self.0.fmt(f)
    }
}

#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
impl SystemTime {
    /// Returns the system time corresponding to "now".
    pub fn now() -> SystemTime {
        SystemTime(time::SystemTime::now())
    }

    /// Returns the amount of time elapsed from an earlier point in time.
    ///
    /// This function may fail because measurements taken earlier are not
    /// guaranteed to always be before later measurements (due to anomalies such
    /// as the system clock being adjusted either forwards or backwards).
    ///
    /// If successful, `Ok(Duration)` is returned where the duration represents
    /// the amount of time elapsed from the specified measurement to this one.
    ///
    /// Returns an `Err` if `earlier` is later than `self`, and the error
    /// contains how far from `self` the time is.
    pub fn duration_from_earlier(&self, earlier: SystemTime)
                                 -> Result<Duration, SystemTimeError> {
        self.0.sub_time(&earlier.0).map_err(SystemTimeError)
    }

    /// Returns the amount of time elapsed since this system time was created.
    ///
    /// This function may fail as the underlying system clock is susceptible to
    /// drift and updates (e.g. the system clock could go backwards), so this
    /// function may not always succeed. If successful, `Ok(duration)` is
    /// returned where the duration represents the amount of time elapsed from
    /// this time measurement to the current time.
    ///
    /// Returns an `Err` if `self` is later than the current system time, and
    /// the error contains how far from the current system time `self` is.
    pub fn elapsed(&self) -> Result<Duration, SystemTimeError> {
        SystemTime::now().duration_from_earlier(*self)
    }
}

#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
impl Add<Duration> for SystemTime {
    type Output = SystemTime;

    fn add(self, dur: Duration) -> SystemTime {
        SystemTime(self.0.add_duration(&dur))
    }
}

#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
impl Sub<Duration> for SystemTime {
    type Output = SystemTime;

    fn sub(self, dur: Duration) -> SystemTime {
        SystemTime(self.0.sub_duration(&dur))
    }
}

#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
impl fmt::Debug for SystemTime {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        self.0.fmt(f)
    }
}

/// An anchor in time which can be used to create new `SystemTime` instances or
/// learn about where in time a `SystemTime` lies.
///
/// This constant is defined to be "1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC" on all systems with
/// respect to the system clock. Using `duration_from_earlier` on an existing
/// `SystemTime` instance can tell how far away from this point in time a
/// measurement lies, and using `UNIX_EPOCH + duration` can be used to create a
/// `SystemTime` instance to represent another fixed point in time.
#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
pub const UNIX_EPOCH: SystemTime = SystemTime(time::UNIX_EPOCH);

#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
impl SystemTimeError {
    /// Returns the positive duration which represents how far forward the
    /// second system time was from the first.
    ///
    /// A `SystemTimeError` is returned from the `duration_from_earlier`
    /// operation whenever the second system time represents a point later
    /// in time than the `self` of the method call.
    pub fn duration(&self) -> Duration {
        self.0
    }
}

#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
impl Error for SystemTimeError {
    fn description(&self) -> &str { "other time was not earlier than self" }
}

#[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")]
impl fmt::Display for SystemTimeError {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        write!(f, "second time provided was later than self")
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::{Instant, SystemTime, Duration, UNIX_EPOCH};

    macro_rules! assert_almost_eq {
        ($a:expr, $b:expr) => ({
            let (a, b) = ($a, $b);
            if a != b {
                let (a, b) = if a > b {(a, b)} else {(b, a)};
                assert!(a - Duration::new(0, 100) <= b);
            }
        })
    }

    #[test]
    fn instant_monotonic() {
        let a = Instant::now();
        let b = Instant::now();
        assert!(b >= a);
    }

    #[test]
    fn instant_elapsed() {
        let a = Instant::now();
        a.elapsed();
    }

    #[test]
    fn instant_math() {
        let a = Instant::now();
        let b = Instant::now();
        let dur = b.duration_from_earlier(a);
        assert_almost_eq!(b - dur, a);
        assert_almost_eq!(a + dur, b);

        let second = Duration::new(1, 0);
        assert_almost_eq!(a - second + second, a);
    }

    #[test]
    #[should_panic]
    fn instant_duration_panic() {
        let a = Instant::now();
        (a - Duration::new(1, 0)).duration_from_earlier(a);
    }

    #[test]
    fn system_time_math() {
        let a = SystemTime::now();
        let b = SystemTime::now();
        match b.duration_from_earlier(a) {
            Ok(dur) if dur == Duration::new(0, 0) => {
                assert_almost_eq!(a, b);
            }
            Ok(dur) => {
                assert!(b > a);
                assert_almost_eq!(b - dur, a);
                assert_almost_eq!(a + dur, b);
            }
            Err(dur) => {
                let dur = dur.duration();
                assert!(a > b);
                assert_almost_eq!(b + dur, a);
                assert_almost_eq!(b - dur, a);
            }
        }

        let second = Duration::new(1, 0);
        assert_almost_eq!(a.duration_from_earlier(a - second).unwrap(), second);
        assert_almost_eq!(a.duration_from_earlier(a + second).unwrap_err()
                           .duration(), second);

        assert_almost_eq!(a - second + second, a);

        let eighty_years = second * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 80;
        assert_almost_eq!(a - eighty_years + eighty_years, a);
        assert_almost_eq!(a - (eighty_years * 10) + (eighty_years * 10), a);
    }

    #[test]
    fn system_time_elapsed() {
        let a = SystemTime::now();
        drop(a.elapsed());
    }

    #[test]
    fn since_epoch() {
        let ts = SystemTime::now();
        let a = ts.duration_from_earlier(UNIX_EPOCH).unwrap();
        let b = ts.duration_from_earlier(UNIX_EPOCH - Duration::new(1, 0)).unwrap();
        assert!(b > a);
        assert_eq!(b - a, Duration::new(1, 0));

        // let's assume that we're all running computers later than 2000
        let thirty_years = Duration::new(1, 0) * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 30;
        assert!(a > thirty_years);

        // let's assume that we're all running computers earlier than 2090.
        // Should give us ~70 years to fix this!
        let hundred_twenty_years = thirty_years * 4;
        assert!(a < hundred_twenty_years);
    }
}