Sleeping for a while in Java

You can sleep for any period of time from one millisecond up to the lifetime of your computer. For example, the following program would sleep for 3 seconds −

Example

 Live Demo

import java.util.*;
public class SleepDemo {

   public static void main(String args[]) {
      try {          
         System.out.println(new Date( ) + "
");          
         Thread.sleep(5*60*10);          
         System.out.println(new Date( ) + "
");        
      } catch (Exception e) {
         System.out.println("Got an exception!");      
      }
   }
}

This will produce the following result −

Output

Sun May 03 18:04:41 GMT 2009
Sun May 03 18:04:51 GMT 2009