Struct Timestamp

pub struct Timestamp {
    pub seconds: i64,
    pub nanos: i32,
}

A Timestamp represents a point in time independent of any time zone or local calendar, encoded as a count of seconds and fractions of seconds at nanosecond resolution. The count is relative to an epoch at UTC midnight on January 1, 1970, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar which extends the Gregorian calendar backwards to year one.

All minutes are 60 seconds long. Leap seconds are “smeared” so that no leap second table is needed for interpretation, using a 24-hour linear smear.

The range is from 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999Z. By restricting to that range, we ensure that we can convert to and from RFC 3339 date strings.

Examples

Example 1: Compute Timestamp from POSIX time().

Timestamp timestamp;
timestamp.set_seconds(time(NULL));
timestamp.set_nanos(0);

Example 2: Compute Timestamp from POSIX gettimeofday().

struct timeval tv;
gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);

Timestamp timestamp;
timestamp.set_seconds(tv.tv_sec);
timestamp.set_nanos(tv.tv_usec * 1000);

Example 3: Compute Timestamp from Win32 GetSystemTimeAsFileTime().

FILETIME ft;
GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(&ft);
UINT64 ticks = (((UINT64)ft.dwHighDateTime) << 32) | ft.dwLowDateTime;

// A Windows tick is 100 nanoseconds. Windows epoch 1601-01-01T00:00:00Z
// is 11644473600 seconds before Unix epoch 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.
Timestamp timestamp;
timestamp.set_seconds((INT64) ((ticks / 10000000) - 11644473600LL));
timestamp.set_nanos((INT32) ((ticks % 10000000) * 100));

Example 4: Compute Timestamp from Java System.currentTimeMillis().

long millis = System.currentTimeMillis();

Timestamp timestamp = Timestamp.newBuilder().setSeconds(millis / 1000)
     .setNanos((int) ((millis % 1000) * 1000000)).build();

Example 5: Compute Timestamp from Java Instant.now().

Instant now = Instant.now();

Timestamp timestamp =
     Timestamp.newBuilder().setSeconds(now.getEpochSecond())
         .setNanos(now.getNano()).build();

Example 6: Compute Timestamp from current time in Python.

timestamp = Timestamp()
timestamp.GetCurrentTime()

JSON Mapping

In JSON format, the Timestamp type is encoded as a string in the RFC 3339 format. That is, the format is “{year}-{month}-{day}T{hour}:{min}:{sec}[.{frac_sec}]Z” where {year} is always expressed using four digits while {month}, {day}, {hour}, {min}, and {sec} are zero-padded to two digits each. The fractional seconds, which can go up to 9 digits (i.e. up to 1 nanosecond resolution), are optional. The “Z” suffix indicates the timezone (“UTC”); the timezone is required. A proto3 JSON serializer should always use UTC (as indicated by “Z”) when printing the Timestamp type and a proto3 JSON parser should be able to accept both UTC and other timezones (as indicated by an offset).

For example, “2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z” encodes 15.01 seconds past 01:30 UTC on January 15, 2017.

In JavaScript, one can convert a Date object to this format using the standard toISOString() method. In Python, a standard datetime.datetime object can be converted to this format using strftime with the time format spec ‘%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ’. Likewise, in Java, one can use the Joda Time’s ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime() to obtain a formatter capable of generating timestamps in this format.

Fields

seconds: i64

Represents seconds of UTC time since Unix epoch 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z. Must be from 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59Z inclusive.

nanos: i32

Non-negative fractions of a second at nanosecond resolution. Negative second values with fractions must still have non-negative nanos values that count forward in time. Must be from 0 to 999,999,999 inclusive.

Implementations

impl Timestamp

pub fn normalize(&mut self)

Normalizes the timestamp to a canonical format.

Based on google::protobuf::util::CreateNormalized.

pub fn try_normalize(self) -> Result<Timestamp, Timestamp>

Normalizes the timestamp to a canonical format, returning the original value if it cannot be normalized.

Normalization is based on google::protobuf::util::CreateNormalized.

pub fn date(year: i64, month: u8, day: u8) -> Result<Timestamp, TimestampError>

Creates a new Timestamp at the start of the provided UTC date.

pub fn date_time( year: i64, month: u8, day: u8, hour: u8, minute: u8, second: u8, ) -> Result<Timestamp, TimestampError>

Creates a new Timestamp instance with the provided UTC date and time.

pub fn date_time_nanos( year: i64, month: u8, day: u8, hour: u8, minute: u8, second: u8, nanos: u32, ) -> Result<Timestamp, TimestampError>

Creates a new Timestamp instance with the provided UTC date and time.

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for Timestamp

fn clone(&self) -> Timestamp

Returns a copy of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for Timestamp

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Default for Timestamp

fn default() -> Self

Returns the “default value” for a type.

impl Display for Timestamp

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl From<SystemTime> for Timestamp

fn from(system_time: SystemTime) -> Timestamp

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl FromStr for Timestamp

type Err = TimestampError

The associated error which can be returned from parsing.

fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Timestamp, TimestampError>

Parses a string s to return a value of this type.

impl Hash for Timestamp

fn hash<H: Hasher>(&self, state: &mut H)

Feeds this value into the given Hasher.

fn hash_slice<H>(data: &[Self], state: &mut H)

where H: Hasher, Self: Sized,

Feeds a slice of this type into the given Hasher.

impl Message for Timestamp

fn encoded_len(&self) -> usize

Returns the encoded length of the message without a length delimiter.

fn clear(&mut self)

Clears the message, resetting all fields to their default.

fn encode(&self, buf: &mut impl BufMut) -> Result<(), EncodeError>

where Self: Sized,

Encodes the message to a buffer.

fn encode_to_vec(&self) -> Vec<u8>

where Self: Sized,

Encodes the message to a newly allocated buffer.

fn encode_length_delimited( &self, buf: &mut impl BufMut, ) -> Result<(), EncodeError>

where Self: Sized,

Encodes the message with a length-delimiter to a buffer.

fn encode_length_delimited_to_vec(&self) -> Vec<u8>

where Self: Sized,

Encodes the message with a length-delimiter to a newly allocated buffer.

fn decode(buf: impl Buf) -> Result<Self, DecodeError>

where Self: Default,

Decodes an instance of the message from a buffer.

fn decode_length_delimited(buf: impl Buf) -> Result<Self, DecodeError>

where Self: Default,

Decodes a length-delimited instance of the message from the buffer.

fn merge(&mut self, buf: impl Buf) -> Result<(), DecodeError>

where Self: Sized,

Decodes an instance of the message from a buffer, and merges it into self.

fn merge_length_delimited(&mut self, buf: impl Buf) -> Result<(), DecodeError>

where Self: Sized,

Decodes a length-delimited instance of the message from buffer, and merges it into self.

impl Name for Timestamp

const PACKAGE: &'static str = PACKAGE

Package name this message type is contained in. They are domain-like and delimited by ., e.g. google.protobuf.

const NAME: &'static str = "Timestamp"

Simple name for this Message. This name is the same as it appears in the source .proto file, e.g. FooBar.

fn type_url() -> String

Type URL for this Message, which by default is the full name with a leading slash, but may also include a leading domain name, e.g. type.googleapis.com/google.profile.Person. This can be used when serializing into the google.protobuf.Any type.

fn full_name() -> String

Fully-qualified unique name for this Message. It’s prefixed with the package name and names of any parent messages, e.g. google.rpc.BadRequest.FieldViolation. By default, this is the package name followed by the message name. Fully-qualified names must be unique within a domain of Type URLs.

impl PartialEq for Timestamp

fn eq(&self, other: &Timestamp) -> bool

Tests for self and other values to be equal, and is used by ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.

impl TryFrom<Timestamp> for SystemTime

type Error = TimestampError

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.

fn try_from(timestamp: Timestamp) -> Result<SystemTime, Self::Error>

Performs the conversion.

impl Copy for Timestamp

impl Eq for Timestamp

Implements the unstable/naive version of Eq: a basic equality check on the internal fields of the Timestamp. This implies that normalized_ts != non_normalized_ts even if normalized_ts == non_normalized_ts.normalized().

impl StructuralPartialEq for Timestamp