System.nanoTime

System.nanoTime只能用于计算时间差，不能用于计算时间的准确度（System.out.println(new Date(System.nanoTime()));这种是绝对错误的）。 

Java代码  

1. long java.lang.System.nanoTime()  

Returns the current value of the most precise available system timer, in nanoseconds. 

This method can only be used to measure elapsed time and is not related to any other notion of system or wall-clock time. The value returned represents nanoseconds since some fixed but arbitrary time (perhaps in the future, so values may be negative). This method provides nanosecond precision, but not necessarily nanosecond accuracy. No guarantees are made about how frequently values change. Differences in successive calls that span greater than approximately 292 years (263 nanoseconds) will not accurately compute elapsed time due to numerical overflow. 

For example, to measure how long some code takes to execute: 

currentTimeMills返回的结果，是自1970-1-1UTC到当前时间为止的，以毫秒为单位的时间，这是没有什么争意的。但是，nanoTime而返回的可能是任意时间，甚至可能是负数……按照API的说明，nanoTime主要的用途是衡量一个时间段，比如说一段代码执行所 用的时间，获取数据库连接所用的时间，网络访问所用的时间等。另外，nanoTime提供了纳秒级别的精度，但实际上获得的值可能没有精确到纳秒。

Java代码  

1. long startTime = System.nanoTime();  
2. // ... the code being measured ...  
3. long estimatedTime = System.nanoTime() - startTime;