How do I say 5 seconds from now in Java?

Question

I am looking at the Date documentation and trying to figure out how I can express NOW + 5 seconds. Here\'s some pseudocode:

import java.util.Date
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Answer 1

You can use:

now.setTime(now.getTime() + 5000);

Date.getTime() and setTime() always refer to milliseconds since January 1st 1970 12am UTC.

Joda-Time

However, I would strongly advise you to use Joda Time if you're doing anything more than the very simplest of date/time handling. It's a much more capable and friendly library than the built-in support in Java.

DateTime later = DateTime.now().plusSeconds( 5 );

java.time

Joda-Time later inspired the new java.time package built into Java 8.