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

Just to complement the given answers, if you need to convert the time given by the date to other time units you can use the TimeUnit API

Example:

TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millis)