codahale/metrics — pull request #182 by ryantenney (2012-03-03 16:48:34+00:00)
Title: Resolving inconsistent use of Timer.time() and Clock

I noticed a number of places where, instead of getting a `TimerContext` from `Timer.time()`, the elapsed time was tracked by calling `System.nanoTime()`. This is unnecessary and bypasses `Clock`, which can use a time reference other than `nanoTime()`.