Do we have a TimeSpan sort of class in Java

Question

I was just wondering if there is a need of TimeSpan in java.util so that I can define how much hours,minutes and seconds are there in between these two times.

Answer 1

In Java 8 a proper time library has been added to the standard API (this is based heavily on JodaTime).

In it there are two classes that you can use to indicate a period:

1. Duration which indicates a seconds or nanoseconds length of a timespan.
2. Period which indicates a more user-friendly difference, stored as 'x years and y months etc'.

A detailed explanation of the difference between them can be found in the Java tutorial