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Add a decimal millisecond delay to Java code

I want to add a delay of 0.488 ms to my java code. but thread.sleep() and Timer functions only allow a granularity of millisecond. How do I specify a delay amount below that level ?

Solution

  • Since 1.5 you can use this nice method java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.sleep(long timeout):

    TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(1);
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.sleep(1000);
TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS.sleep(1000000);
TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.sleep(1000000000);