pub struct Instant { /* private fields */ }
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A measurement of a monotonically nondecreasing clock. Opaque and useful only with Duration.

Instants are always guaranteed to be no less than any previously measured instant when created, and are often useful for tasks such as measuring benchmarks or timing how long an operation takes.

Note, however, that instants are not guaranteed to be steady. In other words, each tick of the underlying clock may not be the same length (e.g. some seconds may be longer than others). An instant may jump forwards or experience time dilation (slow down or speed up), but it will never go backwards.

Instants are opaque types that can only be compared to one another. There is no method to get “the number of seconds” from an instant. Instead, it only allows measuring the duration between two instants (or comparing two instants).

The size of an Instant struct may vary depending on the target operating system.

Note

This type wraps the inner std variant and is used to align the Tokio clock for uses of now(). This can be useful for testing where you can take advantage of time::pause() and time::advance().

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Returns an instant corresponding to “now”.

Examples
use tokio::time::Instant;

let now = Instant::now();

Create a tokio::time::Instant from a std::time::Instant.

Convert the value into a std::time::Instant.

Returns the amount of time elapsed from another instant to this one, or zero duration if that instant is later than this one.

Returns the amount of time elapsed from another instant to this one, or None if that instant is later than this one.

Examples
use tokio::time::{Duration, Instant, sleep};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let now = Instant::now();
    sleep(Duration::new(1, 0)).await;
    let new_now = Instant::now();
    println!("{:?}", new_now.checked_duration_since(now));
    println!("{:?}", now.checked_duration_since(new_now)); // None
}

Returns the amount of time elapsed from another instant to this one, or zero duration if that instant is later than this one.

Examples
use tokio::time::{Duration, Instant, sleep};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let now = Instant::now();
    sleep(Duration::new(1, 0)).await;
    let new_now = Instant::now();
    println!("{:?}", new_now.saturating_duration_since(now));
    println!("{:?}", now.saturating_duration_since(new_now)); // 0ns
}

Returns the amount of time elapsed since this instant was created, or zero duration if that this instant is in the future.

Examples
use tokio::time::{Duration, Instant, sleep};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let instant = Instant::now();
    let three_secs = Duration::from_secs(3);
    sleep(three_secs).await;
    assert!(instant.elapsed() >= three_secs);
}

Returns Some(t) where t is the time self + duration if t can be represented as Instant (which means it’s inside the bounds of the underlying data structure), None otherwise.

Returns Some(t) where t is the time self - duration if t can be represented as Instant (which means it’s inside the bounds of the underlying data structure), None otherwise.

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The resulting type after applying the + operator.
Performs the + operation. Read more
Performs the += operation. Read more
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Compares and returns the maximum of two values. Read more
Compares and returns the minimum of two values. Read more
Restrict a value to a certain interval. Read more
This method tests for self and other values to be equal, and is used by ==.
This method tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.
This method returns an ordering between self and other values if one exists. Read more
This method tests less than (for self and other) and is used by the < operator. Read more
This method tests less than or equal to (for self and other) and is used by the <= operator. Read more
This method tests greater than (for self and other) and is used by the > operator. Read more
This method tests greater than or equal to (for self and other) and is used by the >= operator. Read more
The resulting type after applying the - operator.
Performs the - operation. Read more
The resulting type after applying the - operator.
Performs the - operation. Read more
Performs the -= operation. Read more

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TODO: once 1.33.0 is the minimum supported compiler version, remove Any::type_id_compat and use StdAny::type_id instead. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27745
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Performance hack: Clone doesn’t get inlined for Copy types in debug mode, so make it inline anyway.
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