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java.lang.Object java.lang.Enum<TimeUnit> java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
A TimeUnit represents time durations at a given unit of granularity and provides utility methods to convert across units, and to perform timing and delay operations in these units. A TimeUnit does not maintain time information, but only helps organize and use time representations that may be maintained separately across various contexts. A nanosecond is defined as one thousandth of a microsecond, a microsecond as one thousandth of a millisecond, a millisecond as one thousandth of a second, a minute as sixty seconds, an hour as sixty minutes, and a day as twenty four hours.
A TimeUnit is mainly used to inform time-based methods
how a given timing parameter should be interpreted. For example,
the following code will timeout in 50 milliseconds if the lock
is not available:
Lock lock = ...; if ( lock.tryLock(50L, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) ) ...while this code will timeout in 50 seconds:
Lock lock = ...; if ( lock.tryLock(50L, TimeUnit.SECONDS) ) ...Note however, that there is no guarantee that a particular timeout implementation will be able to notice the passage of time at the same granularity as the given TimeUnit.
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DAYS
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HOURS
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MICROSECONDS
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MILLISECONDS
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MINUTES
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NANOSECONDS
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SECONDS
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long |
convert(long sourceDuration,
TimeUnit sourceUnit)
Convert the given time duration in the given unit to this unit. |
void |
sleep(long timeout)
Performs a Thread.sleep using this unit. |
void |
timedJoin(Thread thread,
long timeout)
Performs a timed Thread.join using this time unit. |
void |
timedWait(Object obj,
long timeout)
Performs a timed Object.wait using this time unit. |
long |
toDays(long duration)
Equivalent to DAYS.convert(duration, this). |
long |
toHours(long duration)
Equivalent to HOURS.convert(duration, this). |
long |
toMicros(long duration)
Equivalent to MICROSECONDS.convert(duration, this). |
long |
toMillis(long duration)
Equivalent to MILLISECONDS.convert(duration, this). |
long |
toMinutes(long duration)
Equivalent to MINUTES.convert(duration, this). |
long |
toNanos(long duration)
Equivalent to NANOSECONDS.convert(duration, this). |
long |
toSeconds(long duration)
Equivalent to SECONDS.convert(duration, this). |
static TimeUnit |
valueOf(String name)
Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. |
static TimeUnit[] |
values()
Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. |
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Enum |
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clone, compareTo, equals, finalize, getDeclaringClass, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString, valueOf |
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
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getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait |
Enum Constant Detail |
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public static final TimeUnit NANOSECONDS
public static final TimeUnit MICROSECONDS
public static final TimeUnit MILLISECONDS
public static final TimeUnit SECONDS
public static final TimeUnit MINUTES
public static final TimeUnit HOURS
public static final TimeUnit DAYS
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public static TimeUnit[] values()
for (TimeUnit c : TimeUnit.values()) System.out.println(c);
public static TimeUnit valueOf(String name)
name
- the name of the enum constant to be returned.
IllegalArgumentException
- if this enum type has no constant
with the specified name
NullPointerException
- if the argument is nullpublic long convert(long sourceDuration, TimeUnit sourceUnit)
For example, to convert 10 minutes to milliseconds, use: TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert(10L, TimeUnit.MINUTES)
sourceDuration
- the time duration in the given sourceUnitsourceUnit
- the unit of the sourceDuration argument
public long toNanos(long duration)
duration
- the duration
convert(long, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit)
public long toMicros(long duration)
duration
- the duration
convert(long, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit)
public long toMillis(long duration)
duration
- the duration
convert(long, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit)
public long toSeconds(long duration)
duration
- the duration
convert(long, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit)
public long toMinutes(long duration)
duration
- the duration
convert(long, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit)
public long toHours(long duration)
duration
- the duration
convert(long, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit)
public long toDays(long duration)
duration
- the duration
convert(long, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit)
public void timedWait(Object obj, long timeout) throws InterruptedException
For example, you could implement a blocking poll
method (see BlockingQueue.poll
)
using:
public synchronized Object poll(long timeout, TimeUnit unit) throws InterruptedException { while (empty) { unit.timedWait(this, timeout); ... } }
obj
- the object to wait ontimeout
- the maximum time to wait. If less than
or equal to zero, do not wait at all.
InterruptedException
- if interrupted while waiting.Object.wait(long, int)
public void timedJoin(Thread thread, long timeout) throws InterruptedException
thread
- the thread to wait fortimeout
- the maximum time to wait. If less than
or equal to zero, do not wait at all.
InterruptedException
- if interrupted while waiting.Thread.join(long, int)
public void sleep(long timeout) throws InterruptedException
timeout
- the minimum time to sleep. If less than
or equal to zero, do not sleep at all.
InterruptedException
- if interrupted while sleeping.Thread.sleep(long)
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