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Reputation: 6081

Unix Timestamp gives me a date that is about 40,000 years in the future

so I get a String that is a date. Example: 2012-10-22 10:00:00 Now I want the Unix Timestamp of this date. So first I have to convert it into a SimpleDateFormat

String metaDate             = (metaDateList.item(0)).getNodeValue(); //2012-10-22 10:00:00 
SimpleDateFormat sdf        = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date nonUnixDate;
nonUnixDate                 = sdf.parse(metaDate);
System.out.println ( nonUnixDate.getTime() );`

The problem I'm encountering is that the unix timestamp is 1358675994000 which is Thu, 23 Sep 45024 14:20:00 GMT. Seems like I have an error somewhere, but where is it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 403

Answers (2)

Jean B
Jean B

Reputation: 326

You are using the wrong format, you should use MM

SimpleDateFormat sdf        = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

Upvotes: 4

Joachim Sauer
Joachim Sauer

Reputation: 308141

The unix timestamp is defined in seconds.

Date.getTime() returns milliseconds.

So your result will be off by a factor of 1000.

Upvotes: 4

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