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package net.grinder.util;
/**
* Something that knows the time.
*
* @author Philip Aston
*/
public interface TimeAuthority {
/**
* Return the current time in milliseconds.
*
*
* This is an abstraction over {@link System#currentTimeMillis()} and the J2SE
* 5 System.nanoTime() method.
*
*
* @return The time. The base time is the Epoch, even if the implementation
* uses System.nanoTime().
*/
long getTimeInMilliseconds();
}