ofSeconds()
is a Duration
class that is used to get a Duration
instance representing the number of seconds.
The ofSeconds
method is defined in the Duration
class. The Duration
class is defined in the java.time
package. To import the Duration
class, check the following import statement.
import java.time.Duration;
public static Duration ofSeconds(long seconds)
long seconds
: The number of seconds. It can be positive or negative.The method returns a Duration
object.
In the code below, we create two Duration
class objects with a positive and negative number of seconds. Then we print the objects to the console.
import java.time.Duration;public class Main{public static void main(String[] args) {Duration positiveSeconds = Duration.ofSeconds(5);System.out.println("Positive Seconds - " + positiveSeconds);Duration negativeSeconds = Duration.ofSeconds(-5);System.out.println("Negative Seconds - " + negativeSeconds);}}
Note: The output is in the ISO 8601 duration format.