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Description
Obtaining the current instant is often needed, as is doing some Duration
-based operations on it. Instant
is useful even when the rest of the library isn't: you don't need the timezone functionality to log human-readable timestamps (#121 (comment)) or represent file access and modification times (okio), or sort events, etc.
With this change, the kotlinx-datetime library would provide calendar- and timezone-aware operations, whereas Instant
, Duration
, Clock
, and TimeSource
would work with just "the flow of time" as seen by the computer.
- The parsing and formatting facilities for
Instant
should probably stay in thekotlinx-datetime
library, as they aren't very meaningful without the notion of a calendar. InstantIso8601Serializer
andInstantComponentSerializer
would probably enter thekotlinx-serialization
library in some form.