provided a helper method to create a new TimerTask from a function block and added a simple test case for using timers

libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/concurrent/Timer.kt

@@ -5,37 +5,37 @@ import java.util.TimerTask
 import java.util.Date
 
 public fun Timer.schedule(delay: Long, action: TimerTask.()->Unit) : TimerTask {
-    val task = createTask(action)
+    val task = timerTask(action)
     schedule(task, delay)
     return task
 }
 
 public fun Timer.schedule(time: Date, action: TimerTask.()->Unit) : TimerTask {
-    val task = createTask(action)
+    val task = timerTask(action)
     schedule(task, time)
     return task
 }
 
 public fun Timer.schedule(delay: Long, period: Long, action: TimerTask.()->Unit) : TimerTask {
-    val task = createTask(action)
+    val task = timerTask(action)
     schedule(task, delay, period)
     return task
 }
 
 public fun Timer.schedule(time: Date, period: Long, action: TimerTask.()->Unit) : TimerTask {
-    val task = createTask(action)
+    val task = timerTask(action)
     schedule(task, time, period)
     return task
 }
 
 public fun Timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(delay: Long, period: Long, action: TimerTask.()->Unit) : TimerTask {
-    val task = createTask(action)
+    val task = timerTask(action)
     scheduleAtFixedRate(task, delay, period)
     return task
 }
 
 public fun Timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(time: Date, period: Long, action: TimerTask.()->Unit) : TimerTask {
-    val task = createTask(action)
+    val task = timerTask(action)
     scheduleAtFixedRate(task, time, period)
     return task
 }
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ public fun fixedRateTimer(name: String? = null, daemon: Boolean = false, startAt
     return timer
 }
 
-private fun createTask(action: TimerTask.()->Unit) : TimerTask = object: TimerTask() {
+public fun timerTask(action: TimerTask.()->Unit) : TimerTask = object: TimerTask() {
     public override fun run() {
         action()
     }

libraries/stdlib/test/concurrent/TimerTest.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package concurrent
+
+import kotlin.concurrent.*
+import kotlin.test.*
+
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger
+import java.util.Timer
+
+import org.junit.Test as test
+
+class TimerTest {
+    test fun scheduledTask() {
+        val counter = AtomicInteger(0)
+        val timer = Timer()
+        val task = timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(1000, 1000) {
+            val current = counter.incrementAndGet()
+            println("Tiemer fired at $current")
+        }
+
+        Thread.sleep(5000)
+        task.cancel()
+
+        val value = counter.get()
+        assertTrue(value > 2, "currnet counter is $value")
+    }
+}