Thread.sleep vs. TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep

Question

If I\'m going to have a call to have a Java Thread go to sleep, is there a reason to prefer one of these forms over the other?

Thread.sleep(x)

Answer 1

They are the same. I prefer the latter because it is more descriptive and allows to choose time unit (see TimeUnit): DAYS, HOURS, MICROSECONDS, MILLISECONDS, MINUTES, NANOSECONDS, SECONDS.