How can I create a Java 8 LocalDate from a long Epoch time in Milliseconds?

Question

I have an external API that returns me dates as longs, represented as milliseconds since the beginning of the Epoch.

With the old style Java API, I woul

Answer 1

In a specific case where your epoch seconds timestamp comes from SQL or is related to SQL somehow, you can obtain it like this:

long startDateLong = <...>

LocalDate theDate = new java.sql.Date(startDateLong).toLocalDate();