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* and to perform timing and delay operations in these units. A |
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* <tt>TimeUnit</tt> does not maintain time information, but only |
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* helps organize and use time representations that may be maintained |
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* separately across various contexts. A nanosecond is defined as |
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* one-billionth of a second, a microsecond is one-millionth of a |
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* second, a millisecond is one-thousandth of a second, a minute is |
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* sixty seconds, an hour is sixty minutes, and a day is twenty four |
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* separately across various contexts. A nanosecond is defined as one |
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* thousandth of a microsecond, a microsecond as one thousandth of a |
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* millisecond, a millisecond as one thousandth of a second, a minute |
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* as sixty seconds, an hour as sixty minutes, and a day as twenty four |
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* hours. |
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* <p>A <tt>TimeUnit</tt> is mainly used to inform time-based methods |
