Question

I would like to create a time counter (count seconds/miliseconds or what ever) that will return the amount of time counted what I want to. I don’t want to preform any kind of task using this counter, I just want to know the amount of time counted.

Is it possible?how?

Answer 1

long t0 = System.nanoTime();
// do something
long t1 = System.nanoTime();
long elapsedNanoseconds = t1 - t0;

Guava has a Stopwatch class encapsulating this.

EDIT:

If what you need is a scheduler, then use a ScheduledExecutorService.