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MBH
MBH

Reputation: 16609

How to add time to another time - Android

I have timer for a task. And all the sessions will be added up to each other.

Let's say today user spent 5 minutes

Other day he spent 1 hour, here this one hour will be added to the 5 minutes

and so on..

So it will be the total time in one value..

How can I do this ? Is it by Milliseconds or Date object ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 64

Answers (2)

The Hungry Androider
The Hungry Androider

Reputation: 2291

You can keep track of all the milliseconds using Date().getTime(), which returns the time since Epoch. So whenever you need to add/remove, just take your Date object, invoke .getTime(), and add/remove from the total. Then when you're done, you can convert the milliseconds to whatever format you need.

Upvotes: 0

Swayam
Swayam

Reputation: 16354

Date is more useful when you are dealing with actual calendar dates.

If you just want to keep track of time intervals/durations, just have a long variable and keep on adding the durations to this.

EDIT : Long.MAX_VALUE is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807. So, you don't really need to worry about the overflow either.

Upvotes: 1

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