Conversion of nanoseconds to milliseconds and nanoseconds < 999999 in Java

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Chris Dennett picture Chris Dennett · Nov 29, 2010 · Viewed 79.2k times · Source

I'm wondering what the most accurate way of converting a big nanoseconds value is to milliseconds and nanoseconds, with an upper limit on the nanoseconds of 999999. The goal is to combine the nanoseconds and milliseconds values to ensure the maximum resolution possible with the limit given. This is for comparability with the sleep / wait methods and some other external library that gives out large nanosecond values.

Edit: my code looks like the following now:

while (hasNS3Events()) {                                
    long delayNS = getNS3EventTSDelay();
    long delayMS = 0;
    if (delayNS <= 0) runOneNS3Event();
    else {
        try {
            if (delayNS > 999999) {
                delayMS = delayNS / 1000000;
                delayNS = delayNS % 1000000;
            }

            EVTLOCK.wait(delayMS, (int)delayNS);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {

        }
    }
}

Cheers, Chris

Answer

Shawn Vader picture Shawn Vader · Feb 6, 2014

Why not use the built in Java methods. The TimeUnit is part of the concurrent package so built exactly for you needs

  long durationInMs = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert(delayNS, TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS);

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