java.time.Duration.abs() Method Example

Description

The java.time.Duration.abs() method returns a copy of this duration with a positive length.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.time.Duration.abs() method.

public Duration abs()

Return Value

a Duration based on this duration with an absolute length, not null

Exception

ArithmeticException − if numeric overflow occurs.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.time.Duration.abs() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.time.Duration;
import java.time.LocalTime;
import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;

public class DurationDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      Duration duration = Duration.between(LocalTime.NOON,LocalTime.MIN);  
      System.out.println(duration.get(ChronoUnit.SECONDS));    

      Duration absDuration = duration.abs();
      System.out.println(absDuration.get(ChronoUnit.SECONDS));    
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

-43200
43200