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

static long	DAY_MS
static long	HOUR_MS
static long	MIN_MS
static long	SEC_MS
static long	YEAR_MS

Constructor Summary

TimeFormat()

Method Summary

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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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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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