Message10379

The hybridization solution is not a good idea:

1. We are essentially lying about the wall clock time.

2. Consider clock drift over a long running process.

So let's not do that.

For Java 8 and later, we should use java.time.Instant.now so that we can access all available precision, so we should address this in a future release, ideally 2.7.2.

Users who want the suggested "hybrid" approach can construct datetime objects with the desired level of precision through their own functions outside of the Jython standard library.