org.omg.CosTime

Interface UTO

public interface UTO extends UTOOperations, Object, IDLEntity

The Uto provides various operations on basic time. These include the following groups of operations: - Construction of a UTO from piece parts, and extraction of piece parts from a UTO - Comparaison of time. - Conversion from relative to absolute time, and conversion to an interval. Of these, the first operation is required for completenesss,since in its absence it would be difficult to provide a time input to the timer event handler, for example. The second operation is required by the RFP, and the third is required for completeness and usability. The Uto interface corresponds to an object that contains utc time,and is the means for manipulating the time contained in the object. This interface has opearations for getting a UtcT type data structure containing the current value of time in the object, as well as operations for getting the values of individual fields of utc time, getting absolute time from relative time, and comparing and doing bounds operations on UTOs. The UTO interface does not provide any operation for modifying the time in the object. It is intended that UTOs are immutable.