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Java Duration Class | toMinutes() Method with Example

Duration Class toMinutes() method: Here, we are going to learn about the toMinutes() method of Duration Class with its syntax and example.
Submitted by Preeti Jain, on May 17, 2020

Duration Class toMinutes() method

• toMinutes() method is available in java.time package.
• toMinutes() method is used to convert this Duration into the number of minutes.
• toMinutes() method is a non-static method, it is accessible with the class object only and if we try to access the method with the class name then we will get an error.
• toMinutes() method does not throw an exception at the time of converting this Duration to minutes.

Syntax:

    public long toMinutes();

Parameter(s):

• None

Return value:

The return type of this method is long, it returns the number of minutes exists in this Duration.

Example:

// Java program to demonstrate the example 
// of long toMinutes() method of Duration

import java.time.*;

public class ToMinutesOfDuration {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        // Instantiates two Duration objects
        Duration du1 = Duration.ofHours(1);
        Duration du2 = Duration.parse("P1DT0H0M");

        // Display du1 and du2
        System.out.println("du1: " + du1);
        System.out.println("du2: " + du2);

        // represent this Duration du1 in hours into
        // number of minutes i.e. 1H = 60M
        long to_minutes = du1.toMinutes();

        // Display to_minutes
        System.out.println("du1.toMinutes(): " + to_minutes);

        // represent this Duration du2 in days into
        // number of minutes i.e. 1D = 24H in 24H = 1440M
        to_minutes = du2.toMinutes();

        // Display to_minutes
        System.out.println("du2.toMinutes(): " + to_minutes);
    }
}

Output

du1: PT1H
du2: PT24H
du1.toMinutes(): 60
du2.toMinutes(): 1440