Be able to set a Segment's StartTime to a time in the past

[odannyc]

Summary

I'd like to be able to set the StartTime for a segment to some time.Time value that's in the past

Desired Behaviour

Possible Solution

Maybe something like this:

sgmt := txn.StartSegment("someRequest")
sgmt.StartTime = NewSegmentStartTime(time.Now())

Additional context

I am using gqlgen which provides me with some hooks to instrument. But the hooks it provides are only there after the main logic/resolver code has run - but it does provide me with a nifty field called OperationStart which is the time.Time when the request began.

[RichVanderwal]

Hi @odannyc , thanks for this suggestion! I know that the New Relic back-end will start discarding data after a certain amount of back-dating, but from a quick glance, your millisecond-sized changes shouldn't cause problems.

I'll bring this to the attention of our Product Manager to see what kind of priority we can assign to this issue.