System Time within Run method of a thread???

[Terence Fernandes]

I need to get the system time within the Run() method of the thread. I have tried eveything but somehow cant find an answer.


eg: public void run(){

Date date = new Date();
date = date.getTime();
}

I get a NULL POINTER EXCEPTION HERE.

Please help.

Thanks

Terence

[Guy Allard]

What you have shown should not even compile.

It should yield a "incompatible types" compile time error.

Regards, Guy

[Ken Blair]

Is there something wrong with:

Date now = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());

What does it being in the run method of a thread have to do with it exactly?
[ October 25, 2005: Message edited by: Ken Blair ]

[Guy Allard]

Originally posted by Ken Blair:
Is there something wrong with:

Date now = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());

What does it being in the run method of a thread have to do with it exactly?

[ October 25, 2005: Message edited by: Ken Blair ]

That code and:

  
Date now = new Date();

are (essentially) equivalent.

Guy

[Ken Blair]

Okay, remove the call to System since they're the same thing. The rest of what I said stands...what's wrong with it and what does it being in run have to do with anything.

[Ilja Preuss]

Originally posted by Ken Blair:
what's wrong with it and what does it being in run have to do with anything.

Nothing, and nothing. The problem must be something else.

[Terence Fernandes]

Yeah....the problem was in the way I was calling the Date. I figured out the whole issue.
Thanks a lot guys.
Regards
Terence