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User7723337
User7723337

Reputation: 12018

Converting seconds to date time String

I have seconds from epoch time and want to convert it to Day-Month-Year HH:MM
I have tried following but it gives me wrong value. 

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTimeInMillis(seconds*1000);
String dateString = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) + ", "+.......

Above code is not working properly am i doing anything wrong here.

For example if seconds = 1299671538 then it generates time string as Friday, December 12, 1969 which is wrong it should display Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Upvotes: 7

Views: 21754

Answers (5)

Hanis
Hanis

Reputation: 51

You need to use 

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));

instead of

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

because UTC time from seconds depends on Timezone.

Upvotes: 5

Yilmaz Guleryuz
Yilmaz Guleryuz

Reputation: 9735

I can confirm that answer from @Idolon is working fine, simple snippet is below...

long created = 1300563523;
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm", Locale.US);
String dateString = formatter.format(new Date(created * 1000L));

using SimpleDateFormat is better way, change the format as you need.

Upvotes: 1

Volo
Volo

Reputation: 29428

For example if seconds = 1299671538 then it generates time string as Friday, December 12, 1969 which is wrong it should display Wednesday, March 09, 2011

You have integer overflow. Just use the following (notice "L" after 1000 constant):

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTimeInMillis(seconds*1000L);
String dateString = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) + ", "+.......

or better use SimpleDateFormat class:

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy HH:mm");
String dateString = formatter.format(new Date(seconds * 1000L));

this will give you the following date string for your original seconds input: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 13:52

Upvotes: 21

redGREENblue
redGREENblue

Reputation: 3126

Won't it work wihtout Calendar, like below? Haven't run this piece of code, but guess it should work .

CharSequence theDate = DateFormat.format("Day-Month-Year HH:MM", objDate);

Upvotes: 0

z7sg Ѫ
z7sg Ѫ

Reputation: 3203

You don't need a calendar in this case, you can simply use the constructor new Date(1000 * seconds)

Then use a SimpleDateFormat to create a String to display it.

For a full explanation on using SimpleDateFormat go here.

The answer to this question though is that you need to use long values instead of ints.

new Date(1299674566000l)

If you don't believe me, run this:

    int secondsInt = 1299674566;
    System.out.println(new Date(secondsInt *1000));
    long secondsLong = 1299674566;
    System.out.println(new Date(secondsLong *1000));

Upvotes: 2

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