How to schedule a periodic task in Java?

Question

I need to schedule a task to run in at fixed interval of time. How can I do this with support of long intervals (for example on each 8 hours)?

I\'m currently using <

Answer 1

Do something every one second

Timer timer = new Timer();
timer.schedule(new TimerTask() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        //code
    }
}, 0, 1000);