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+// Copyright 2018 The go-ethereum Authors
+// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
+//
+// The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+// along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+package mru
+
+import (
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// TimestampProvider sets the time source of the mru package
+var TimestampProvider timestampProvider = NewDefaultTimestampProvider()
+
+// Encodes a point in time as a Unix epoch
+type Timestamp struct {
+	Time uint64 // Unix epoch timestamp, in seconds
+}
+
+// 8 bytes uint64 Time
+const timestampLength = 8
+
+// timestampProvider interface describes a source of timestamp information
+type timestampProvider interface {
+	Now() Timestamp // returns the current timestamp information
+}
+
+// binaryGet populates the timestamp structure from the given byte slice
+func (t *Timestamp) binaryGet(data []byte) error {
+	if len(data) != timestampLength {
+		return NewError(ErrCorruptData, "timestamp data has the wrong size")
+	}
+	t.Time = binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[:8])
+	return nil
+}
+
+// binaryPut Serializes a Timestamp to a byte slice
+func (t *Timestamp) binaryPut(data []byte) error {
+	if len(data) != timestampLength {
+		return NewError(ErrCorruptData, "timestamp data has the wrong size")
+	}
+	binary.LittleEndian.PutUint64(data, t.Time)
+	return nil
+}
+
+type DefaultTimestampProvider struct {
+}
+
+// NewDefaultTimestampProvider creates a system clock based timestamp provider
+func NewDefaultTimestampProvider() *DefaultTimestampProvider {
+	return &DefaultTimestampProvider{}
+}
+
+// Now returns the current time according to this provider
+func (dtp *DefaultTimestampProvider) Now() Timestamp {
+	return Timestamp{
+		Time: uint64(time.Now().Unix()),
+	}
+}