Java exercise: Schedule tasks run in a background thread using java.util.Timer

This example run a background task repeatly in 5 seconds to print system time.

Example of using java.util.Timer

import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Date;

/**
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 */
class testTimer{

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Timer timer = new Timer(); 
        TimerTask timeTask = new TimerTask() {
            
            @Override
            public void run() {
                System.out.println((new Date()).toString());
            }
        };
        timer.schedule(timeTask, 0, 5000);
        
        System.out.println("Press ENTER to exit");
        
        try{
            System.in.read();
        }catch(IOException ex){
            System.out.println(ex.toString());
        }
        
        System.out.println("-BYE-");
        timer.cancel();
    }
}