Convert from days to milliseconds

java datetime-conversion
maas picture maas · Aug 8, 2011 · Viewed 118.5k times · Source

I want to create a function that will convert the days into milliseconds. The days format is stored as 0.2444, so how to convert this to milliseonds?

Answer

E_X picture E_X · Jun 18, 2014

The best practice for this, in my opinion is:

TimeUnit.DAYS.toMillis(1);     // 1 day to milliseconds.
TimeUnit.MINUTES.toMillis(23); // 23 minutes to milliseconds.
TimeUnit.HOURS.toMillis(4);    // 4 hours to milliseconds.
TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(96); // 96 seconds to milliseconds.

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