Android convert date and time to milliseconds

Question

I have one date and time format as below:

Tue Apr 23 16:08:28 GMT+05:30 2013

I want to convert into milliseconds, but I actually dont know

Answer 1

Covert date and time string to milliseconds:

 public static final String DATE_TIME_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss a";

or

  public static final String DATE_TIME_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss";

or

  public static final String DEFAULT_DATE_TIME_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ";
  //TimeZone.getAvailableIds() to list all timezone ids
  String timeZone = "EST5EDT";//it can be anything timezone like IST, GMT.
  String time = "2/21/2018 7:41:00 AM";

 public static long[] convertTimeInMillis(String dateTimeFormat, String timeZone, String... times) throws ParseException {

   SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(dateTimeFormat, Locale.getDefault());
   dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(timeZone));
   long[] ret = new long[times.length];
   for (int i = 0; i < times.length; i++) {
      String timeWithTZ = times[i] + " "+timeZone;
      Date d = dateFormat.parse(timeWithTZ);
      ret[i] = d.getTime();
    }
  return ret;

}

//millis to dateString

  public static String convertTimeInMillisToDateString(long timeInMillis, String DATE_TIME_FORMAT) {
     Date d = new Date(timeInMillis);
     SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
     return sdf.format(d);
  }