Sleeping for a While
Categories: Java 8(JDK1.8)
You can sleep for any period of time from one millisecond up to the lifetime of your computer. For example, the following program would sleep for 3 seconds.
Example
import java.util.*;
public class SleepDemo {
public static void main(String args[]) {
try {
System.out.println(new Date( ) + "\n");
Thread.sleep(5*60*10);
System.out.println(new Date( ) + "\n");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Got an exception!");
}
}
}
This will produce the following result −
Output
Sun May 03 18:04:41 GMT 2009
Sun May 03 18:04:51 GMT 2009