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Egis
Egis

Reputation: 879

How to convert “YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss” to UNIX timestamp in Java?

Or, maybe you know a better approach how to solve this problem. I get dates in the format of "YYYY—MM-DD HH:MM:SS" and need to calculate time difference between now then in approximate increments: 1 minute ago, 1 hour ago, etc.

Any pointers much appreciated :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 15949

Answers (3)

phisch
phisch

Reputation: 4731

Have a look at the SimpleDateFormat.

You can define your pattern and parse it into a Java Date Object:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = format.parse("your string goes here");
long timestamp = date.getTime();

The first line defines the SimpleDateFormat (can also be static if you reuse it a lot) The second line parses your input The third line converts it into milliseconds.

Upvotes: 3

user2148736
user2148736

Reputation: 1323

You need to convert your string into java.util.Date with the assistance of SimpleDateFormat (for examples see - https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=simpledateformat+%5Bjava%5D) and then get the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.

Date dt = new Date();
long unixTimeStamp = dt.getTime();

Upvotes: 0

Boris the Spider
Boris the Spider

Reputation: 61128

First you need to parse your date string to a Date and then get the timestamp from that:

final SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

final String myDateString = "someDateString";
final Date date = dateFormat.parse(myDateString);

final long timestamp = date.getTime();

Have a look at the SimpleDateFormat javadocs for information on which format string to use.

Upvotes: 1

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