How to convert a string Date to long millseconds

Question

I have a date inside a string, something like \"12-December-2012\". How can I convert this into milliseconds (long)?

Answer 1

using simpledateformat you can easily achieve it.

1) First convert string to java.Date using simpledateformatter.

2) Use getTime method to obtain count of millisecs from date

 public class test {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
      String currentDate = "01-March-2016";
      SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
     Date parseDate = f.parse(currentDate);
     long milliseconds = parseDate.getTime();
  }
        }

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