001/* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the license. 016 */ 017package org.apache.logging.log4j.core.time; 018 019import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Clock; 020 021/** 022 * Extension of the {@link Clock} interface that is able to provide more accurate time information than milliseconds 023 * since the epoch. {@code PreciseClock} implementations are free to return millisecond-precision time 024 * if that is the most accurate time information available on this platform. 025 * @since 2.11 026 */ 027public interface PreciseClock extends Clock { 028 029 /** 030 * Initializes the specified instant with time information as accurate as available on this platform. 031 * @param mutableInstant the container to be initialized with the accurate time information 032 * @since 2.11 033 */ 034 void init(final MutableInstant mutableInstant); 035}