I need to convert this 1384174174 timestamp from PHP to Java. This is how I echo the date('Y/m/d H:i:s' ,$dn1['timestamp'] in PHP yet I don't know how to do it in Java. Please help me. Thanks.
3 Answers
In Java, you'd do it like this:
Date date = new Date(1384174174);
SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("Y/M/d H:m:s");
String dateFormatted = f.format(date);
Watch out for the format pattern where, unlike PHP, M is month in year and m is minute in hour.
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This method will take your Unix style date and create a Java Date. It returns a readable string. It should help you get started.
private String unixToString(long unixSeconds) {
Date date = new Date(unixSeconds);
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
return sdf.format(date);
}
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Avoid legacy classes
The other Answers use terribly-flawed legacy classes that were supplanted by the modern java.time classes built into Java 8+ as defined in JSR 310.
java.time
this 1384174174 timestamp
I presume your input is a count of whole seconds since the epoch reference of first moment of 1970 in UTC, 1970-01-01T00:00Z.
long input = 1_384_174_174L ;
Instant instant = Instant.ofEpochSecond( input ) ;
To generate text is standard ISO 8601 format, simply call toString. For other formats, use DateTimeFormatter as seen in many many existing Questions & Answers.
See this code run at Ideone.com.
instant.toString(): 2013-11-11T12:49:34Z
