Github user aljoscha commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1216#issuecomment-145281934
Yes, this is a good workaround for the time being.
I think to get event time (watermarks) and cycles to work together would
require something akin to the multi-dimensional timestamps of Naiad.
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