Duration (ELKI: Environment for DeveLoping KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures)

All Superinterfaces:

Statistic

All Known Implementing Classes:

MillisTimeDuration, NanoDuration
```
public interface Duration
extends Statistic
```
Class that tracks the duration of a task. TODO: add support for different time units?

Since:

0.6.0

Author:

Erich Schubert

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Duration`	`begin()`	Start the timer.
`Duration`	`end()`	Finish the timer.
`long`	`getBegin()`	Get the begin of the interval.
`long`	`getDuration()`	Get the duration of the interval.
`long`	`getEnd()`	Get the end of the interval.

Methods inherited from interface elki.logging.statistics.Statistic
formatValue, getKey

- Method Detail
  - begin
```
Duration begin()
```
    Start the timer.
  - end
```
Duration end()
```
    Finish the timer.
  - getBegin
```
long getBegin()
```
    Get the begin of the interval.
    
    Returns:
    
    Begin
  - getEnd
```
long getEnd()
```
    Get the end of the interval.
    
    Returns:
    
    End
  - getDuration
```
long getDuration()
```
    Get the duration of the interval.
    
    Returns:
    
    Duration