Java 8 Duration class and timeouts

[Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

I've seen instances over time where the scale of timeouts is confusing,
where some timeouts are expressed in milliseconds, others in seconds,
sometimes as an int, sometimes as a long.

I encourage all of us to use the Java 8 class Duration to avoid problems
stemming from this in new APIs. IMO. there is no doubt as to what
Duration.ofSeconds(2) means, as opposed to the literal "2" or "2000" and a
method like "setTimeout()" which does not include a scale name in its name.

I'll be updating VFS to this effect.

Once Net 3.8.0 is out (soon), I would like to make Net 3.9.0 depend on Java
8 and add Duration APIs for its timeouts.

An example of scale mismatch (with distance):
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/mars-climate-orbiter/in-depth/

Gary