Time as a string parser in java

Question

Is there any libraries that is able to take a string such as 5d 1h 2m 15s and add it to a java date / java Calendar?

ie a system property will be set as 5d 1h 2m 15s

We will read in the system property and add this amount of time to the current date.

Otherwise I will have to implement this as a long in milliseconds.

Hey take a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6403851/parsing-time-strings-like-1h-30min — Emax, Oct 13 '16 at 15:08
Also see "Parsing Strings into Dates" at https://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_date_time.htm — Ben I., Oct 13 '16 at 15:11
**Search Stack Overflow** for *ISO 8601, duration, Period, and PnYnMnDTnHnMnS*. This topic has been addressed many times. The java.time classes have support for both parsing and generating such strings. — Basil Bourque, Oct 13 '16 at 16:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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you'll need a bit of parsing to extract the component element but Joda-Time's duration should help you out

If you are using Java8 joda-time's concept were integrated so no need to external dependencies

once you have a duration adding it to the current date time should be trivial

Java8 and jodaTime

Instant ajustedTime = Instant.now().plus(yourDurationInstance);

you can convert to and from Java's date pretty easily, others have already answered here

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Oct 13 '16 at 15:26

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Instant.now isn't found in Joda 2.6. Is there a alternative for 2.6? – IanWatson Oct 13 '16 at 15:32
Should be there as it has been introduced in 2.0: http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/apidocs/org/joda/time/Instant.html#now() – Kazaag Oct 13 '16 at 15:50

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