SystemReader: add method to get LocalDateTime

Using #civilNow() because in the documentation, this calendar-based
representation is called "civil time".

Change-Id: Iaa363e66683cb548419666068a4ffef44a776e12

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/SystemReader.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/SystemReader.java
index 7cdf0ee1a2..55cc878e02 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/SystemReader.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/SystemReader.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.text.DateFormat;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.LocalDateTime;
 import java.time.ZoneId;
 import java.time.ZoneOffset;
 import java.util.Locale;
@@ -539,6 +540,17 @@ public abstract class SystemReader {
 	}
 
 	/**
+	 * Get "now" as civil time, in the System timezone
+	 *
+	 * @return the current system time
+	 *
+	 * @since 7.1
+	 */
+	public LocalDateTime civilNow() {
+		return LocalDateTime.ofInstant(now(), getTimeZoneId());
+	}
+
+	/**
 	 * Get clock instance preferred by this system.
 	 *
 	 * @return clock instance preferred by this system.