com.elasticpath.service.misc
Interface TimeService

All Superinterfaces:

EpPersistenceService, EpService

All Known Implementing Classes:

DatabaseServerTimeServiceImpl

public interface TimeService
extends EpPersistenceService

Provides time service. This service provides a way to retrieve a timestamp from a unique source. This is rather critical in clustered environment because different time varies on different application servers.

Method Summary

java.util.Date

getCurrentTime() Returns the current time.

Methods inherited from interface com.elasticpath.service.EpPersistenceService

getObject, getPersistenceEngine, setPersistenceEngine

Methods inherited from interface com.elasticpath.service.EpService

getElasticPath, setElasticPath

Method Detail

getCurrentTime

java.util.Date getCurrentTime()

Returns the current time.

Returns:

the current time.