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Ankit HTech
Ankit HTech

Reputation: 1893

java equivalent for nsdate

"NSDate timestamp" looks like "2012-12-11 18:30:41 - 400". The java timestamp is just a long integer (for example:"276712445500").

So, What is a Java equivalent for nsdate?

Thanks in advance .

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1500875

It depends what you mean by "looks like". You can get a string representation of a java.util.Date using a DateFormat (e.g. SimpleDateFormat). You'd want to set the time zone yourself, though.

I believe that the internal structure of NSDate is basically equivalent to java.util.Date, based on the documentation:

The sole primitive method of NSDate, timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate, provides the basis for all the other methods in the NSDate interface. This method returns a time value relative to an absolute reference date—the first instant of 1 January 2001, GMT.

In other words, the value doesn't "know" its offset from UTC etc... it's just a point in time. (The epoch and scale may well be different to java.util.Date, but that's an implementation difference more than a conceptual one.)

However, despite all of this I would strongly recommend that you use Joda Time for all date/time manipulation in Java. It's a much nicer API than java.util.Date/Calendar.

Upvotes: 1

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