Ancient Sibyls, such as the famous Pythia, frequently responded to supplicants&#39; questions in a dark and mysterious way. (Croesus, for instance, was told that attacking the Persians would &quot;destroy a great empire&quot;; that this could also mean his own did not occur to him.) <br>
<br>I was reminded of this by looking at the Javadoc for the org.drools.time.SessionClock method getCurrentTime, which is documented to return a long value, albeit explicitly stating that the semantics of this value is not defined and that an implementation of this interface may do as it pleases.<br>
<br>All that&#39;s needed to clear this oracular obfuscation is another method, giving the number of nanoseconds per unit of the getCurrentTime return value. Why ever has this not been added?<br><br>-W<br><br>