RussellSpitzer commented on a change in pull request #3775:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/3775#discussion_r772030596



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File path: core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/util/SnapshotUtil.java
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@@ -102,43 +102,35 @@ public static Snapshot oldestAncestor(Table table) {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Traverses the history of the table's current snapshot and:
-   * 1. returns null, if no snapshot exists or target timestamp is more recent 
than the current snapshot.
-   * 2. else return the first snapshot which satisfies {@literal >=} 
targetTimestamp.
-   * <p>
-   * Given the snapshots (with timestamp): [S1 (10), S2 (11), S3 (12), S4 (14)]
-   * <p>
-   * firstSnapshotAfterTimestamp(table, x {@literal <=} 10) = S1
-   * firstSnapshotAfterTimestamp(table, 11) = S2
-   * firstSnapshotAfterTimestamp(table, 13) = S4
-   * firstSnapshotAfterTimestamp(table, 14) = S4
-   * firstSnapshotAfterTimestamp(table, x {@literal >} 14) = null
-   * <p>
-   * where x is the target timestamp in milliseconds and Si is the snapshot
+   * Traverses the history of the table's current snapshot and finds the first 
snapshot after the given timestamp.

Review comment:
       "First snapshot created after" I was confused about this description 
before because "after" could refer to the traversal which would be the snapshot 
one older than the timestamp rather than the  snapshot one younger than the 
timestamp which I believe is the intent here




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