net.java.truelicense.core.util

Interface Clock

All Known Subinterfaces:

LicenseManagementContext

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicLicenseManagementContext, BasicV2LicenseManagementContext, V1LicenseManagementContext, V2XmlLicenseManagementContext

public interface Clock

Provides the current date/time.

Author:

Christian Schlichtherle

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Date	now() Returns the current date/time.

Method Detail

now

Date now()

Returns the current date/time. A basic implementation could just return a new Date. However, in order to protect against date/time forgery, a more sophisticated implementation should use an authoritative time source, e.g. a radio clock, an Internet time server or extrapolate an approximation from timestamps in input data. If resolving the current date/time from an authoritative resource fails for any reason, the implementation should simply fallback to return a new Date.

Returns:

The current date/time.