Convert date and time to milliseconds in Android

Question

I have Date and Time from DatePicker and TimePicker. Now i want to change the selected date and time into milliseconds. How can I do this???

For Example I have Date selected 2-5-2012 and Time is 20:43

Now I have to convert this Date Time into milliseconds something like

DateTimeInMilliseconds = 1234567890

Answer 1

You can create a Calendar object with the values from your DatePicker and TimePicker:

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.set(datePicker.getYear(), datePicker.getMonth(), datePicker.getDayOfMonth(), 
             timePicker.getCurrentHour(), timePicker.getCurrentMinute(), 0);
long startTime = calendar.getTimeInMillis();

Answer 2

Merge the two strings together, and parse them using SimpleDateFormat.

Something like this:

String toParse = myDate + " " + myTime; // Results in "2-5-2012 20:43"
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("d-M-yyyy hh:mm"); // I assume d-M, you may refer to M-d for month-day instead.
Date date = formatter.parse(toParse); // You will need try/catch around this
long millis = date.getTime();

Sample on IDEOne: http://ideone.com/nOJYQ4

Answer 3

You can use this code

String string_date = "12-December-2012";

SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
Date d = f.parse(string_date);
long milliseconds = d.getTime();

Answer 4

The getTime() method of the Date class returns a long with the time in milliseconds.

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Date.html

So if you have a Date object somewhere like:

Date date;

You can do:

System.out.println(date.getTime());

And it will print out the time in milliseconds.