TimeProvider class abstract

A clock for span start, end, and event timestamps.

The default SystemTimeProvider uses DateTime.now, which is microsecond- precision on Dart-VM native and millisecond-precision on Dart-on-JS web (Date.now() is the JS source — microsecondsSinceEpoch returns millisecondsSinceEpoch * 1000, so the lower three digits are always zero). For sub-millisecond spans on web, see WebTimeProvider in lib/src/util/web_time_provider.dart, which routes through window.performance.now() (~5µs nominal, browser-coarsened to ~100µs for Spectre mitigation).

The provider is held on APITracerProvider; tracers and spans created from a provider inherit its clock so that all timestamps in a trace are consistent. SDK consumers configure it via OTel.initialize(timeProvider: ...); API-only consumers can pass it to the API tracer-provider factory.

Implementers

Constructors

TimeProvider()

Properties

hashCode int
The hash code for this object.
no setterinherited
runtimeType Type
A representation of the runtime type of the object.
no setterinherited

Methods

noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic
Invoked when a nonexistent method or property is accessed.
inherited
nowDateTime() DateTime
Returns the current wall-clock time as a DateTime.
toString() String
A string representation of this object.
inherited

Operators

operator ==(Object other) bool
The equality operator.
inherited