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I have this in my code Thread.currentThread().sleep(x); Eclipse tells me to use the static Thread.sleep(x); instead, why? What's the difference, is there some difference in functionality at all between these 2 methods? There is only one method, not two, and it is static. While you can call a static method via an instance reference, it's not good style. It indicates the programmer thinks he or she is calling an instance method. A confused programmer might be thinking he or she can cause another thread (not the current one) to sleep this way, when that's not what it does. Both your lines of code

I want my bash script to sleep until a specific time. So, I want a command like "sleep" which takes no interval but an end time and sleeps until then. The "at"-daemon is not a solution, as I need to block a running script until a certain date/time. Is there such a command? SpoonMeiser As mentioned by Outlaw Programmer, I think the solution is just to sleep for the correct number of seconds. To do this in bash, do the following: current_epoch=$(date +%s) target_epoch=$(date -d '01/01/2010 12:00' +%s) sleep_seconds=$(( $target_epoch - $current_epoch )) sleep $sleep_seconds To add precision down

Is there to way write a T-SQL command to just make it sleep for a period of time? I am writing a web service asynchronously and I want to be able to run some tests to see if the asynchronous pattern is really going to make it more scalable. In order to "mock" an external service that is slow, I want to be able to call a SQL server with a script that runs slowly, but isn't actually processing a ton of stuff. look at the WAITFOR command Eg. -- wait for 1 minute WAITFOR DELAY '00:01' -- wait for 1 second WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:01' This command allows you a high degree of precision but is only

In app I can use http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/PowerManager.WakeLock.html but is there a way to keep webpage running and prevent from going to sleep? It would be nice if it runs at least on android. In an app there are a couple of ways you can do it, but I guess you mean just in a mobile web page, viewed in any browser via Android. With normal HTML/Javascript/etc., I really, really doubt it. It actually may be possible using Flash (on flash-enabled phones with plugins enabled), though, at least in specific circumstances. I say this because, in a test app without the WAKE

This question already has an answer here: How can I kill a thread? without using stop(); 3 answers How to stop or interrupt a sleeping thread in java.? I have a thread that syncs data and sleeps for 10 minutes in run() method, if i want to stop the sync by stopping the thread when it is sleeping.? How can this be achieved? Call the interrupt() method on your thread. This will cause the sleep to be cancelled and an InterruptedException will be thrown. You can interrupt a sleeping thread with Thread.interrupt() . Now stopping a thread is deprecated - what if the thread is holding a lock to

I have thread that runs loop. I need that loop to be run once every 5ms (1ms error). I know that Sleep() function is not precise. Do you have any suggestions? Update. I can't do it other way. At the end of loop I need some kind of Sleep. I don't want to have 100% CPU loaded either. From the question tags I suppose you are on windows. Take a look at Multimedia Timers , they advertise precision under 1ms. Another options is to use Spin Locks but this will basically keep a cpu core at maximum usage. Arno Don't use spinning here. The requested resolution and accuracy can be reached with standard