How can I convert the result of System.nanoTime to a date in Java?

Question

I want to convert the result of System.nanoTime() to a date.

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Answer 1

In the theory, you should not use the only System.nanotime(), but you can do a simple trick with this method in order to get nanoseconds of the current time.

public class TimeProvider{
    private final static long  jvm_diff;
    static {
        jvm_diff = System.currentTimeMillis()*1000_000-System.nanoTime();   
    }

    public static long getAccurateNow(){
        return System.nanoTime()+jvm_diff;

    }
}

Even though, you can create your own Clock implementation with this way for using high-level java data time classes.

public class HighLevelClock extends Clock {

    private final ZoneId zoneId;

    public HighLevelClock(ZoneId zoneId) {
        this.zoneId = zoneId;
    }
    static long nano_per_second = 1000_000_000L;

    @Override
    public ZoneId getZone() {
        return zoneId;
    }

    @Override
    public Clock withZone(ZoneId zoneId) {
        return new HighLevelClock(zoneId);
    }

    @Override
    public Instant instant() {
        long nanos = TimeProvider.getAccurateNow();
        return Instant.ofEpochSecond(nanos/nano_per_second, nanos%nano_per_second);
    }

}

Now we can use our clock implementation like the following:

Clock highLevelClock = new HighLevelClock(ZoneId.systemDefault());
System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now(highLevelClock));  //2020-04-04T19:22:06.756194290
System.out.println(ZonedDateTime.now(highLevelClock));  //2020-04-04T19:22:06.756202923+04:00[Asia/Baku]
System.out.println(LocalTime.now(highLevelClock));  //19:22:06.756220764