Github user StephanEwen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1175#discussion_r40303645 --- Diff: flink-staging/flink-streaming/flink-streaming-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/api/environment/StreamExecutionEnvironment.java --- @@ -516,6 +527,30 @@ public void registerType(Class<?> type) { } // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + // Time characteristic + // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + /** + * Sets the time characteristic for the stream, e.g., processing time, event time, + * or ingestion time. + * + * @param characteristic The time characteristic. + */ + public void setStreamTimeCharacteristic(TimeCharacteristic characteristic) { --- End diff -- Yes, we are thinking about it for the future. Semantics for that are not trivial, so the first version will not do that...
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