From eb02b92ebdcd6ce4520262f4c822a1ba582884c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:35:03 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix timestamp in lang.transaction

Part of #267.
---
 lang/lib/transaction.bal | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lang/lib/transaction.bal b/lang/lib/transaction.bal
index 43ab0267..d4398c80 100644
--- a/lang/lib/transaction.bal
+++ b/lang/lib/transaction.bal
@@ -23,11 +23,19 @@ type Info readonly & record {|
    // a previous one
    int retryNumber;
    // probably useful for timeouts and logs
-   timestamp startTime;
+   Timestamp startTime;
    // maybe useful
    Info? prevAttempt;
 |};
 
+# An instant in time.
+public type Timestamp readonly & object {
+    # Returns milliseconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z, not including leap seconds
+    public toMillisecondsInt() returns int;
+    # Returns a string representation of the timestamp in ISO 8601 format
+    public toString() returns string;
+};
+
 # Returns information about the current transaction
 public transactional isolated function info() returns Info = external;