org.gvsig.timesupport

Interface Instant

All Superinterfaces:

Time

All Known Subinterfaces:

AbsoluteInstant, EditableRelativeInstant, RelativeInstant

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultAbsoluteInstant, DefaultEditableRelativeInstant, DefaultRelativeInstant

public interface Instant
extends Time

An Instant represents a position in a time scale. In practice, an instant is an interval whose duration is less than the resolution of the time scale.

All the Instant subclasses have to be immutable and have to provide a Chronology as well. All standard Chronology classes are also immutable.

A huge part of the documentation of this class has been retrieved from the joda-time library.

See Also:

http://joda-time.sourceforge.net, https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/docs/devel/org-gvsig-sensors/1-0.0/analysis-and-design/detailed-view/time-support/libraries/org-gvsig-timesupport-lib

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	isAfter(Instant instant) Is this instant after the instant passed in comparing solely by millisecond.
boolean	isBefore(Instant instant) Is this instant before the instant passed in comparing solely by millisecond.
boolean	isEqual(Instant instant) Is this instant equal to the instant passed in comparing solely by millisecond.
java.lang.String	toString(java.lang.String pattern) Output the instant using the specified format pattern.

Methods inherited from interface org.gvsig.timesupport.Time

getChronology, intersects, isAbsolute, isInstant, isInterval, isRelative

Method Detail

isEqual

boolean isEqual(Instant instant)

Is this instant equal to the instant passed in comparing solely by millisecond.

Parameters:

instant - an instant to check against, null means now

Returns:

true if the instant is equal to the instant passed in

isAfter

boolean isAfter(Instant instant)

Is this instant after the instant passed in comparing solely by millisecond.

Parameters:

instant - an instant to check against, null means now

Returns:

true if the instant is after the instant passed in

isBefore

boolean isBefore(Instant instant)

Is this instant before the instant passed in comparing solely by millisecond.

Parameters:

instant - an instant to check against, null means now

Returns:

true if the instant is before the instant passed in

toString

java.lang.String toString(java.lang.String pattern)

Output the instant using the specified format pattern.

Parameters:

pattern - the pattern specification, null means use toString