// Copyright 2012-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT // file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at // http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license // , at your // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed // except according to those terms. //! 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 but instead it only /// allow learning 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 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 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 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 { 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 { SystemTime::now().duration_from_earlier(*self) } } #[unstable(feature = "time2", reason = "recently added", issue = "29866")] impl Add 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 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 duration, `earlier`, actually represents a /// point later in time than the `self` of the method call. This function /// will extract and return the amount of time later `earlier` actually is. 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, 1) <= 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); } }