/**
* Returns a CORBA UtcT that represents an instant that lies a given number of CORBA time units
* (100 ns) in the future. If the argument is negative, returns null.
*/
public static UtcT corbaFuture(long corbaUnits) {
if (corbaUnits < 0) {
return null;
}
UtcT result = corbaTime();
result.time = result.time + corbaUnits;
return result;
}
/**
* Converts the given unixTime into a CORBA UtcT.
*
* @param unixTime the number of milliseconds since 1970/01/01 00:00 UTC.
*/
public static UtcT corbaTime(long unixTime) {
UtcT result = new UtcT();
result.time = (unixTime * 10000) + UNIX_OFFSET;
// unixTime is always UTC.
// Therefore, no time zone offset.
result.tdf = 0;
// nothing reasonable to put here
result.inacchi = 0;
result.inacclo = 0;
return result;
}