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Provides classes and methods to work with dates and durations. These classes are immutable (and therefore thread-safe) apart from StopWatch.

The time package contains some basic utilities for manipulating time (a delorean, police box and grandfather clock?). These include a StopWatch for simple performance measurements and an optimised FastDateFormat class.

New in Lang 2.1 is the DurationFormatUtils class, which provides various methods for formatting durations.

Since:2.0
/** * <p>Provides classes and methods to work with dates and durations. * These classes are immutable (and therefore thread-safe) apart from {@link org.apache.commons.lang3.time.StopWatch}.</p> * * <p>The time package contains some basic utilities for manipulating time (a delorean, police box and grandfather clock?). * These include a {@link org.apache.commons.lang3.time.StopWatch} for simple performance measurements and an optimised {@link org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateFormat} class.</p> * * <p>New in Lang 2.1 is the {@link org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DurationFormatUtils} class, which provides various methods for formatting durations.</p> * * @since 2.0 */
package org.apache.commons.lang3.time;