How do I measure time elapsed in Java? [duplicate]

Answer 1

I built a formatting function based on stuff I stole off SO. I needed a way of "profiling" stuff in log messages, so I needed a fixed length duration message.

public static String GetElapsed(long aInitialTime, long aEndTime, boolean aIncludeMillis)
{
  StringBuffer elapsed = new StringBuffer();

  Map units = new HashMap();

  long milliseconds = aEndTime - aInitialTime;

  long seconds = milliseconds / 1000;
  long minutes = milliseconds / (60 * 1000);
  long hours = milliseconds / (60 * 60 * 1000);
  long days = milliseconds / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);

  units.put("milliseconds", milliseconds);
  units.put("seconds", seconds);
  units.put("minutes", minutes);
  units.put("hours", hours);
  units.put("days", days);

  if (days > 0)
  {
    long leftoverHours = hours % 24;
    units.put("hours", leftoverHours);
  }

  if (hours > 0)
  {
    long leftoeverMinutes = minutes % 60;
    units.put("minutes", leftoeverMinutes);
  }

  if (minutes > 0)
  {
    long leftoverSeconds = seconds % 60;
    units.put("seconds", leftoverSeconds);
  }

  if (seconds > 0)
  {
    long leftoverMilliseconds = milliseconds % 1000;
    units.put("milliseconds", leftoverMilliseconds);
  }

  elapsed.append(PrependZeroIfNeeded(units.get("days")) + " days ")
      .append(PrependZeroIfNeeded(units.get("hours")) + " hours ")
      .append(PrependZeroIfNeeded(units.get("minutes")) + " minutes ")
      .append(PrependZeroIfNeeded(units.get("seconds")) + " seconds ")
      .append(PrependZeroIfNeeded(units.get("milliseconds")) + " ms");

  return elapsed.toString();

}

private static String PrependZeroIfNeeded(long aValue)
{
  return aValue < 10 ? "0" + aValue : Long.toString(aValue);
}

And a test class:

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

public class TimeUtilsTest extends TestCase
{

  public void testGetElapsed()
  {
    long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    GregorianCalendar calendar = (GregorianCalendar) Calendar.getInstance();
    calendar.setTime(new Date(start));

    calendar.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 610);
    calendar.add(Calendar.SECOND, 35);
    calendar.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 5);
    calendar.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 5);

    long end = calendar.getTimeInMillis();

    assertEquals("05 days 00 hours 05 minutes 35 seconds 610 ms", TimeUtils.GetElapsed(start, end, true));

  }

}