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depperm
depperm

Reputation: 10746

Timestamp adds extra days

I get the current time in milliseconds like

(System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000)

in line I use it:

foodObj.setValue("expires",(System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000)+ONE_WEEK+"");

and add one or two weeks using static ints

public static int TWO_WEEKS = 1209600000;
public static int ONE_WEEK = 604800000;
public static int ONE_DAY = 86400000;

When I try to later turn this into days it's ahead by I think 16 or 17 days (idk if it counts milliseconds of a day as a day)

//keysValues.get("expires") contains the timestamp
Long exp= Long.parseLong(keysValues.get("expires"));
long days=TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(exp)-16;//otherwise this is 23

Why is there the inconsistency in time? Is it a Long or String conversion thing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 63

Answers (1)

Alex Salauyou
Alex Salauyou

Reputation: 14338

By System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000 you get seconds, not milliseconds. So to make you code work properly, you should either use proper constants:

public static final int ONE_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60;   // 86400, not 86.4M
public static final int ONE_WEEK = ONE_DAY * 7;
public static final int TWO_WEEKS = ONE_WEEK * 2;

// ...
long days = TimeUnit.SECONDS.toDays(exp)

or not divide by 1000.

BTW, this doesn't handle possible daylight saving clock changes, but I believe it is not so important here.

Upvotes: 4

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