How to Delay Operation For a Few Seconds in Java

In this example we will show the method to make the current executing program delay few seconds in Java.

Source Code

package com.beginner.examples;

import java.util.Date;

public class DelayRun {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    System.out.println("It is : " + new Date());
    try {
      Thread.sleep(4000); // delay few seconds
      System.out.println("It is : " + new Date());
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Output:

It is : Wed Jun 17 02:28:31 UTC 2020
It is : Wed Jun 17 02:28:35 UTC 2020

References

Imported packages in Java documentation:

Date
Date