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A Timestamp represents a point in time independent of any time zone or local calendar, encoded as a count of seconds and fractions of seconds at nanosecond resolution. The count is relative to an epoch at UTC midnight on January 1, 1970, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar which extends the Gregorian calendar backwards to year one.
All minutes are 60 seconds long. Leap seconds are “smeared” so that no leap second table is needed for interpretation, using a 24-hour linear smear.
The range is from 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999Z. By restricting to that range, we ensure that we can convert to and from RFC 3339 date strings.
Examples
Example 1: Compute Timestamp from POSIX time()
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Timestamp timestamp;
timestamp.set_seconds(time(NULL));
timestamp.set_nanos(0);
Example 2: Compute Timestamp from POSIX gettimeofday()
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struct timeval tv;
gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
Timestamp timestamp;
timestamp.set_seconds(tv.tv_sec);
timestamp.set_nanos(tv.tv_usec * 1000);
Example 3: Compute Timestamp from Win32 GetSystemTimeAsFileTime()
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FILETIME ft;
GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(&ft);
UINT64 ticks = (((UINT64)ft.dwHighDateTime) << 32) | ft.dwLowDateTime;
// A Windows tick is 100 nanoseconds. Windows epoch 1601-01-01T00:00:00Z
// is 11644473600 seconds before Unix epoch 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.
Timestamp timestamp;
timestamp.set_seconds((INT64) ((ticks / 10000000) - 11644473600LL));
timestamp.set_nanos((INT32) ((ticks % 10000000) * 100));
Example 4: Compute Timestamp from Java System.currentTimeMillis()
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long millis = System.currentTimeMillis();
Timestamp timestamp = Timestamp.newBuilder().setSeconds(millis / 1000)
.setNanos((int) ((millis % 1000) * 1000000)).build();
Example 5: Compute Timestamp from Java Instant.now()
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Instant now = Instant.now();
Timestamp timestamp =
Timestamp.newBuilder().setSeconds(now.getEpochSecond())
.setNanos(now.getNano()).build();
Example 6: Compute Timestamp from current time in Python.
timestamp = Timestamp()
timestamp.GetCurrentTime()
JSON Mapping
In JSON format, the Timestamp type is encoded as a string in the RFC 3339 format. That is, the format is “{year}-{month}-{day}T{hour}:{min}:{sec}\[.{frac_sec}\]Z” where {year} is always expressed using four digits while {month}, {day}, {hour}, {min}, and {sec} are zero-padded to two digits each. The fractional seconds, which can go up to 9 digits (i.e. up to 1 nanosecond resolution), are optional. The “Z” suffix indicates the timezone (“UTC”); the timezone is required. A proto3 JSON serializer should always use UTC (as indicated by “Z”) when printing the Timestamp type and a proto3 JSON parser should be able to accept both UTC and other timezones (as indicated by an offset).
For example, “2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z” encodes 15.01 seconds past 01:30 UTC on January 15, 2017.
In JavaScript, one can convert a Date object to this format using the
standard
[toISOString()](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toISOString)
method. In Python, a standard datetime.datetime
object can be converted
to this format using
[strftime
](https://docs.python.org/2/library/time.html#time.strftime) with
the time format spec ‘%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ’. Likewise, in Java, one can use
the Joda Time’s [ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime()
](http://www.joda.org/joda-time/apidocs/org/joda/time/format/ISODateTimeFormat.html#dateTime%2D%2D) to obtain a formatter capable of generating timestamps in this format.
Fields
seconds: i64
Represents seconds of UTC time since Unix epoch 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z. Must be from 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59Z inclusive.
nanos: i32
Non-negative fractions of a second at nanosecond resolution. Negative second values with fractions must still have non-negative nanos values that count forward in time. Must be from 0 to 999,999,999 inclusive.
Implementations
sourceimpl Timestamp
impl Timestamp
sourcepub fn normalize(&mut self)
pub fn normalize(&mut self)
Normalizes the timestamp to a canonical format.
Based on google::protobuf::util::CreateNormalized
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sourcepub fn date(year: i64, month: u8, day: u8) -> Result<Timestamp, TimestampError>
pub fn date(year: i64, month: u8, day: u8) -> Result<Timestamp, TimestampError>
Creates a new Timestamp
at the start of the provided UTC date.
Trait Implementations
sourceimpl From<SystemTime> for Timestamp
impl From<SystemTime> for Timestamp
sourcefn from(system_time: SystemTime) -> Timestamp
fn from(system_time: SystemTime) -> Timestamp
sourceimpl FromStr for Timestamp
impl FromStr for Timestamp
type Err = TimestampError
type Err = TimestampError
sourceimpl Message for Timestamp
impl Message for Timestamp
sourcefn encoded_len(&self) -> usize
fn encoded_len(&self) -> usize
sourcefn encode<B>(&self, buf: &mut B) -> Result<(), EncodeError>where
B: BufMut,
fn encode<B>(&self, buf: &mut B) -> Result<(), EncodeError>where
B: BufMut,
sourcefn encode_to_vec(&self) -> Vec<u8, Global>ⓘNotable traits for Vec<u8, A>impl<A> Write for Vec<u8, A>where
A: Allocator,
fn encode_to_vec(&self) -> Vec<u8, Global>ⓘNotable traits for Vec<u8, A>impl<A> Write for Vec<u8, A>where
A: Allocator,
A: Allocator,
sourcefn encode_length_delimited<B>(&self, buf: &mut B) -> Result<(), EncodeError>where
B: BufMut,
fn encode_length_delimited<B>(&self, buf: &mut B) -> Result<(), EncodeError>where
B: BufMut,
sourcefn encode_length_delimited_to_vec(&self) -> Vec<u8, Global>ⓘNotable traits for Vec<u8, A>impl<A> Write for Vec<u8, A>where
A: Allocator,
fn encode_length_delimited_to_vec(&self) -> Vec<u8, Global>ⓘNotable traits for Vec<u8, A>impl<A> Write for Vec<u8, A>where
A: Allocator,
A: Allocator,
sourcefn decode<B>(buf: B) -> Result<Self, DecodeError>where
B: Buf,
Self: Default,
fn decode<B>(buf: B) -> Result<Self, DecodeError>where
B: Buf,
Self: Default,
sourcefn decode_length_delimited<B>(buf: B) -> Result<Self, DecodeError>where
B: Buf,
Self: Default,
fn decode_length_delimited<B>(buf: B) -> Result<Self, DecodeError>where
B: Buf,
Self: Default,
sourcefn merge<B>(&mut self, buf: B) -> Result<(), DecodeError>where
B: Buf,
fn merge<B>(&mut self, buf: B) -> Result<(), DecodeError>where
B: Buf,
self
. Read moresourcefn merge_length_delimited<B>(&mut self, buf: B) -> Result<(), DecodeError>where
B: Buf,
fn merge_length_delimited<B>(&mut self, buf: B) -> Result<(), DecodeError>where
B: Buf,
self
. Read moreimpl Eq for Timestamp
Implements the unstable/naive version of Eq
: a basic equality check on the internal fields of the Timestamp
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This implies that normalized_ts != non_normalized_ts
even if normalized_ts == non_normalized_ts.normalized()
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