What is Duration.ofSeconds() in Java?

ofSeconds() is a staticThe methods in Java that can be called without creating an object of the class. method of the 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;

Syntax

public static Duration ofSeconds(long seconds)

Parameters

  • long seconds: The number of seconds. It can be positive or negative.

Return value

The method returns a Duration object.

Code

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.