Port of Doug Lea's TimeUnit Java class to JavaScript.
npm install timeunitTimeUnit js
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TimeUnit is a port of Doug Lea's public domain TimeUnit Java class
to JavaScript. It was ported from the
backport-util-concurrent version.
This class is the basis for java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit from JavaSE.
Ported by Jason Walton, released under the
public domain.

About
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A timeunit represents time durations at a given unit of
granularity and provides utility methods to convert across units,
and to perform delay operations in these units. Atimeunit does not maintain time information, but only
helps organize and use time representations that may be maintained
separately across various contexts.
A timeunit is mainly used to inform time-based methods
how a given timing parameter should be interpreted. Time units may be passed as constants
to other methods:
wait(50, timeunit.seconds);
Or can be used to perform conversions, such as converting 5 seconds into 5000 milliseconds:
timeunit.seconds.toMilliseconds(5); // Returns 5000
timeunit.milliseconds.convert(5, timeunit.seconds); // Returns 5000
timeunit also define the very handy sleep() function, which schedules a function for future
execution using setTimeout():
timeunit.seconds.sleep(5, function() {
console.log("Hello after 5 seconds!");
});
Perhaps even more useful in CoffeeScript, where it is a little easier to use that setTimeout, since
it follows the "callback at the end" idiom used by most node.js code:
timeunit.seconds.sleep 5, () ->
console.log "Hello world"
As opposed to the somewhat less pretty:
setTimeout (()->
console.log "Hello world"
), 5000
A nanosecond is defined as one thousandth of a microsecond, a microsecond as one thousandth of a
millisecond, a millisecond as one thousandth of a second, a minute as sixty seconds, an hour as
sixty minutes, and a day as twenty four hours.
Compatibilty
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timeunit uses UMD for it's module definition, so should work in
node.js, in the browser (via the timeunit global), via
AMD/Require.js and via browersify.
Install in node.js with:
npm install timeunit
Install with:
bower install timeunit