public void clean(Date now) {
long nowInMillis = now.getTime();
int periodsElapsed = computeElapsedPeriodsSinceLastClean(nowInMillis);
lastHeartBeat = nowInMillis;
if (periodsElapsed > 1) {
addInfo("Multiple periods, i.e. " + periodsElapsed + " periods, seem to have elapsed. This is expected at application start.");
}
for (int i = 0; i < periodsElapsed; i++) {
int offset = getPeriodOffsetForDeletionTarget() - i;
Date dateOfPeriodToClean = rc.getEndOfNextNthPeriod(now, offset);
cleanPeriod(dateOfPeriodToClean);
}
}