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package com.google.devtools.build.lib.util;
/**
* This class provides an interface for a pluggable clock.
*/
public interface Clock {
/**
* Returns the current time in milliseconds. The milliseconds are counted from midnight
* Jan 1, 1970.
*/
long currentTimeMillis();
/**
* Returns the current time in nanoseconds. The nanoseconds are measured relative to some
* unknown, but fixed event. Unfortunately, a sequence of calls to this method is *not*
* guaranteed to return non-decreasing values, so callers should be tolerant to this behavior.
*/
long nanoTime();
}