Stopwatch.java

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 *  Compilation:  javac Stopwatch.java
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/**
 *  <i>Stopwatch</i>. This class is a data type for measuring
 *  the running time (wall clock) of a program.
 *  <p>
 *  For additional documentation, see
 *  <a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/introcs/32class">Section 3.2</a> of
 *  <i>Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach</i>
 *  by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne.
 */



public class Stopwatch { 

    private final long start;

   /**
     * Create a stopwatch object.
     */
    public Stopwatch() {
        start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    } 


   /**
     * Return elapsed time (in seconds) since this object was created.
     */
    public double elapsedTime() {
        long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
        return (now - start) / 1000.0;
    }

}