How can i change Thread Milli Second to minutes or Seconds

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Hi guys,

Usually when Thread.Sleep(3000) is excuted, the thread will sleep for 3000 milliseconds, I would like to be able to specify the sleep time in either seconds or minutes.

How can I change Thread function Milli Seconds to Seconds or Minutes.

Regards
Vasanth

Posted 17-Aug-12 8:54am

vasanthkumarmk

Updated 17-Aug-12 10:58am

Clifford Nelson

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Solution 1

You can use a TimeSpan instead:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.thread.sleep.aspx[^]

Timespan:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timespan.aspx[^]

Posted 17-Aug-12 8:56am

Kenneth Haugland

Solution 2

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/274eh01d.aspx[^]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d00bd51t.aspx[^]

Posted 17-Aug-12 9:00am

ridoy

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Clifford Nelson · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-17T10:09:00

Solution 3

I have to admit that I think that Microsoft misnamed Sleep and it should have been SleepMilliseconds. However a way to do what you want without the complexity of dealing with TimeSpan is to create a new class to encapsulate the Sleep method.

namespace ConsoleApplication
{
	public static class Sleep
	{
		public static void Seconds(int seconds)
		{
			System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(seconds * 1000);
		}
		public static void Minutes(int minutes)
		{
			System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(minutes * 60000);
		}
	}
}

To provide more flexibility you could set the argument type to double.

Posted 17-Aug-12 10:09am

Clifford Nelson

Updated 17-Aug-12 10:10am

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vasanthkumarmk 17-Aug-12 16:18pm

Thanks a lot.......

Clifford Nelson 17-Aug-12 16:52pm

Glad it is what you wanted. Using the TimeSpan as others suggested really was not that good a solution. You count have gotten the same thing by just multiplying, so why bother.

And yes, thanks so much for the vote and the accepting of the solution.

vasanthkumarmk 18-Aug-12 1:37am

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