CODEWITHSUNDEEP
java
user1702383
user1702383

Reputation:

Why date.gettime() always returns Previous Date, not today's date in java?

I have following code, running on Unix server (WAS 5.1), it's a test environment in our company. When I try to execute the below code, I always get yesterday's date (i.e if I execute today 9/27/2012 it returns date as 9/26/2012)

long userSelectedTimeLong = date.getTime()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 390

Answers (4)

jeroen_de_schutter
jeroen_de_schutter

Reputation: 1883

Another possibility : does the server sync with some kind of time service ? (ntp, ...) Maybe it 's just the system date on the Unix machine that has been set wrong.

Upvotes: 0

jonas.alessi
jonas.alessi

Reputation: 1

It would be good use long userSelectedTimeLong = Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis()

Upvotes: 0

jeroen_de_schutter
jeroen_de_schutter

Reputation: 1883

I have had a similar problem once ;-) Check wether the local date variable is instantiated when the application launches and perhabs not being refreshed while the application runs.

Upvotes: 0

Amit Deshpande
Amit Deshpande

Reputation: 19185

Date returns time based on TimeZone of the machine. It is possible that your sever might be hosted some where else and TimeZone value is different. You need to compare value of date by having same TimeZone.

Once you do that next task is is date variable really contains current date. You can print a simple log using new Date().getTime()

Upvotes: 1

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