java-time

How do I convert a LocalDate to a java.sql.Date ? Attempt: Record r = new Record(); LocalDate date = new Date(1967, 06, 22); r.setDateOfBirth(new Date(date)); This fails (won't compile) and all I can find is Joda time stuff. I'm using Java 8 The answer is really simple; import java.sql.Date; ... LocalDate locald = LocalDate.of(1967, 06, 22); Date date = Date.valueOf(locald); // Magic happens here! r.setDateOfBirth(date); If you would want to convert it the other way around, you do it like this: Date date = r.getDate(); LocalDate localD = date.toLocalDate(); r is the record you're using in JOOQ

I have an external API return me dates as long s, represented as milliseconds since Epoch. With the old style Java API, I would simply construct a Date from it with Date myDate = new Date(startDateLong) What is the equivalent in Java 8's LocalDate / LocalDateTime classes? I am interested in converting the point in time represented by the long to a LocalDate in my current local timezone. If you have the milliseconds since the Epoch and want convert them to a local date using the current local timezone, you can use LocalDate date = Instant.ofEpochMilli(longValue).atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault())

I am wondering if there is a way to get current milliseconds since 1-1-1970 (epoch) using the new LocalDate , LocalTime or LocalDateTime classes of Java 8. The known way is below: long currentMilliseconds = new Date().getTime(); or long currentMilliseconds = System.currentTimeMillis(); Stuart Marks I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "current milliseconds" but I'll assume it's the number of milliseconds since the "epoch," namely midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC. If you want to find the number of milliseconds since the epoch right now, then use System.currentTimeMillis() as Anubian Noob has

I created this wonderful static method yesterday, and it worked just fine - yesterday However, today it gives me this error. I guess it is from too many 0s before the Z. Can anyone recommend how to parse in a concise way (Java 8) this type of String format date - keeping in mind that it worked yesterday too, so ISO_INSTANT is also a valid format for the String ? Caused by: java.time.DateTimeException: Unable to obtain LocalDate from TemporalAccessor: {NanoOfSecond=0, InstantSeconds=1443451604, MilliOfSecond=0, MicroOfSecond=0},ISO of type java.time.format.Parsed at java.time.LocalDate.from

If I use a pattern like d/M/yy for creating a Java 8 DateTimeFormatter (e.g. using DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(pattern); (which I will only use for parsing, not formatting), it will interpret all two-letter years as 20xx, e.g. parsing a string like 13/5/99 to be interpreted as 2099-05-13 , which in my case is wrong (it was meant to be in the year 1999). In my application, I'm trying to parse dates from OCR'd documents, which could e.g. still be from the 90ies, so having the old SimpleDateFormat behavior of interpreting the date to be within 80 years before and 20 years after the current date