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[jira] [Commented] (FLINK-7139) Refine currentTimeMillis to nanoTime

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7139?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16079084#comment-16079084 ] 

mingleizhang commented on FLINK-7139:
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Hello, [~Zentol] What do you think ?

> Refine currentTimeMillis to nanoTime
> ------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-7139
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7139
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Local Runtime
>            Reporter: mingleizhang
>            Assignee: mingleizhang
>            Priority: Minor
>
> When measuring intervals of time it's much better & safer to use {{System.nanoTime()}} than {{System.currentTimeMillis()}}. The latter is affected by system clock drift and adjustments (like by system time daemon) and the former is much more precise and stable.



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