Get elapsed time in hours in Java

Description

The following code shows how to get elapsed time in hours.

Example


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public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
    long start = System.currentTimeMillis();

    Thread.sleep(2000);

    // Get elapsed time in milliseconds
    long elapsedTimeMillis = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
    // Get elapsed time in hours
    float elapsedTimeHour = elapsedTimeMillis/(60*60*1000F);
    System.out.println(elapsedTimeHour);
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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