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mingleizhang commented on FLINK-4421:
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Hi, Stephan. Thanks for reporting this. I would like to know, Under what
circumstances will lead to clock updates ? that is what you said can lead to
negative duration. And I would like to try read {{Introduce a Clock utility for
monotonous system timestamps}}.
Like today I run a code like {{System.currentTimeMillis()}} return 12345.
Tomorrow, I run {{System.currentTimeMillis()}} return 12145. So, It can lead to
negative duration.
> Make clocks and time measurements monotonous
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> Key: FLINK-4421
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4421
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Stephan Ewen
> Priority: Minor
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> Currently, many places use {{System.currentTimeMillis()}} to acquire
> timestamps or measure time intervals.
> Since this relies on the system clock, and the system clock is not
> necessarily monotonous (in the presence of clock updates), this can lead to
> negative duration and decreasing timestamps where increasing timestamps are
> expected.
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