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saba abbasi
saba abbasi

Reputation: 33

How can I extract date and time from a Long type variable in Kotlin on Android

I am using an API from USGS website.

"properties": {
    "mag": 3.2,
    "place": "Puerto Rico region",
    "time": 1164925597950,
    "updated": 1415323859614,
    "tz": null
}

The time is in milliseconds. I want to extract date & time from these milliseconds. How can I do this in Kotlin?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3293

Answers (4)

Willi Mentzel
Willi Mentzel

Reputation: 29884

From API level 26 on (Android) or if the JVM is your target, you can use the Java 8 Date API:

val date = Instant
        .ofEpochMilli(1164925597950)
        .atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()) // change time zone if necessary
        .toLocalDateTime()

val formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")
println(formatter.format(date)) // 2006-11-30 23:26

Below API level 26:

val date = Date(1164925597950)

val formatter = SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")
println(formatter.format(date)) // 2006-11-30 23:26

Upvotes: 1

Dipak Sharma
Dipak Sharma

Reputation: 976

Just pass your milliseconds to Date Constructor Date(timeinMillis) it will return the date.

Upvotes: 0

arjitsrivastava13
arjitsrivastava13

Reputation: 313

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
import java.util.Date

fun convertLongToTime (time: Long): String {
    val date = Date(time)
    val format = SimpleDateFormat("dd/M/yyyy hh:mm:ss")
    return format.format(date)
}

This would work in Kotlin, you can change the format in SimpleDataFormat according to how you want.

Upvotes: 4

Noban Hasan
Noban Hasan

Reputation: 713

Here is the way i use in Java. You just simply change it for kotlin.

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

String dateString = formatter.format(new Date(dateInMillis)));

Upvotes: 0

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