com.rbnb.api
Class Time

java.lang.Object
  com.rbnb.api.Time

public final class Time
extends Object

Time handling class for RBNB applications.

This class contains methods for manipulating time information within the RBNB framework. These are helper methods for users of the RBNB API and for implementors of the DataTurbine.

Since:

V2.0

Author:

Ian Brown

Version:

07/21/2004

Constructor Summary

Time()

Method Summary

static double	fromFormattedString(String timeStringI) Converts the input string to a RBNB time (double).
static double	now() Gets an RBNB time value (double) representing the current time.
static String	since1970(double timeI) Converts the input RBNB time value (double) to a string based on the fact that the input represents a number of seconds since January 1st, 1970.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Time

public Time()

Method Detail

now

public static final double now()

Gets an RBNB time value (double) representing the current time.

Returns:

the current time of day.

Since:

V2.0

Author:

Ian Brown

Version:

11/06/2002

since1970

public static final String since1970(double timeI)

Converts the input RBNB time value (double) to a string based on the fact that the input represents a number of seconds since January 1st, 1970.

The output is a string of the form:

DD-MMM-YYYY TMZ HH:MM:SS.sss

This method assumes that it should use the system's idea of time zone. The input value is assumed to be in UTC.

Parameters:

timeI - the time.

Returns:

the string representation.

Since:

V2.0

Author:

Ian Brown

Version:

05/10/2001

fromFormattedString

public static final double fromFormattedString(String timeStringI)
                                        throws Exception

Converts the input string to a RBNB time (double).

The input is a string of the form:

DD-MMM-YYYY TMZ HH:MM:SS.sss

This method assumes that it should use the system's idea of time zone. The input value is assumed to be in UTC.

Parameters:

timeStringI - the time string.

Returns:

the time as a double

Throws:

Exception

Since:

V2.6

Author:

Eric Friets

Version:

04/20/2005