org.jwall.util

Class TimeFormat

java.lang.Object

org.jwall.util.TimeFormat

public class TimeFormat
extends Object

This class provides some utility functions useful to format elapsed time (usually given in milliseconds).

Author:

Christian Bockermann <chris@jwall.org&g;

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static long	DAY_MS
static long	HOUR_MS
static long	MIN_MS
static long	SEC_MS
static long	YEAR_MS

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
TimeFormat()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	format(long timeInMilliseconds) This method takes the given number of milliseconds, time, and creates a new String containing a description of the time by means of days, hours, minutes and seconds.
String	formatOld(long timeInMilliseconds) Deprecated.
static void	main(String[] args)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

SEC_MS

public static final long SEC_MS

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Constant Field Values

MIN_MS

public static final long MIN_MS

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Constant Field Values

HOUR_MS

public static final long HOUR_MS

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Constant Field Values

DAY_MS

public static final long DAY_MS

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Constant Field Values

YEAR_MS

public static final long YEAR_MS

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Constructor Detail

TimeFormat

public TimeFormat()

Method Detail

format

public String format(long timeInMilliseconds)

This method takes the given number of milliseconds, time, and creates a new String containing a description of the time by means of days, hours, minutes and seconds. If time is less than any of the mentioned properties, then this field will not be printed, e.g.

• calling format( 1000 ) will result in the string "1s"
• calling format( 90000 * 1000 ), i.e. milliseconds of one day + 1 hour, will result in "1 day 1h".

This method is optimized over the old version (formatOld()

Parameters:

timeInMilliseconds - The time as an amount of milliseconds.

Returns:

The time formatted as printable string.

formatOld

public String formatOld(long timeInMilliseconds)

Deprecated.

This is the old method for formatting milliseconds.

Parameters:

timeInMilliseconds -

Returns:

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws Exception

Throws:

Exception