Extending Data Warehouse - is createOneTimeRecord() needed

When reviewing the sample code in https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/DataWarehouseExtending, I noticed that the following code (for creating a fact table) sets up a reference between the TIME_ID column and the identifier in the Time Dimension table:

    private void createNumbersStorageFact() {

        IFieldDescriptor id = createFieldDescriptor(

                ISnapshotService.FACT_ID_COLUMN, FieldKind.LONG,

                FieldFlags.DEFAULT);

        IFieldDescriptor timeId = createFieldDescriptor(

                ISnapshotService.TIME_ID_COLUMN, FieldKind.LONG,

                FieldFlags.QUERYABLE);

        IFieldDescriptor continent = createFieldDescriptor(

                INumbersSnapshotService.CONTINENT_COLUMN,

                FieldKind.STRING, FieldFlags.QUERYABLE | FieldFlags.PARAMETER);

        IFieldDescriptor number = createFieldDescriptor(

                INumbersSnapshotService.NUMBER_COLUMN,

                FieldKind.INTEGER, FieldFlags.DEFAULT);

        timeId.setReference(getTableDescriptor(

                ICommonSnapshotService.SNAPSHOT_NAME,

                ICommonSnapshotService.TIME_DIMENSION));

        continent.setAggregationKind(AggregationKind.SELECT);

        number.setAggregationKind(AggregationKind.SELECT);

        createTableDescriptor(

                INumbersSnapshotService.NUMBERS_FACT_TABLE,

                new IFieldDescriptor[] { id, timeId, continent, number },

                id);

    }

Then, later on in the article, the following sample code is provided for updating the fact table created by the above code:

    protected void updateSnapshot() throws TeamRepositoryException {

        String[] continents = { "North America", "South America", "Europe",

                "Asia", "Africa", "Australia", "Antarctica" };

        long time = System.currentTimeMillis();

        long nextFactId = getNextFactId(getTableDescriptor(NUMBERS_FACT_TABLE));

        Random random = new Random();

        for (int i = 0; i < continents.length; i++) {

            ITableDescriptor table = getTableDescriptor(NUMBERS_FACT_TABLE);

            IWritableDataRow record = createTableRecord(table);

            record.setLong(FACT_ID_COLUMN, nextFactId);

            record.setLong(TIME_ID_COLUMN, time);

            record.setString(CONTINENT_COLUMN, continents[i]);

            record.setInt(NUMBER_COLUMN, random.nextInt());

            storeTableRecord(table, record);

            nextFactId++;

        }

    }

QUESTIONS
Doesn't the above sample code have to create a record in the Time Dimension?
Is that done by adding the following calling?

getCommonSnapshotService().createOneTimeRecord(time);

Thanks.