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
public clas         


        

Answer 1

From the one-liner-hacky dep.:

new Date( System.currentTimeMillis() + 5000L)

As I understand it from your example, 'now' is really 'now', and "System.currentTimeMillis()' happens to represent that same 'now' concept :-)

But, yup, for everything more complicated than that the Joda time API rocks.