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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Duration

Duration is a time-based unit of time. While it may sound odd to phrase it that way, the wording was chosen to distinguish it from a date-based unit of time, which we'll look at next. In plain English, it's a measurement of time, such as 10 seconds, 1 hour, or 100 nanoseconds. Duration is measured in seconds, but there are a number of methods to get a representation of the duration in other units of measure, which are as follows:

  • getNano(): This is Duration in nanosecods
  • getSeconds(): This is Duration in seconds
  • get(TemporalUnit): This is Duration in a unit of measure specified

There are also a variety of arithmetic methods, which are mentioned as follows:

  • add/minus (int amount, TemporalUnit unit)
  • add/minus (Duration)
  • addDays ...
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