convert epoch time to date

Question

I\'ve tried a million different ways of doing this, but with no avail. Any help would be much appreciated.

long millis = getMillisFromServer();
Date date =          


        

Answer 1

Please take care that the epoch time is in second and Date object accepts Long value which is in milliseconds. Hence you would have to multiply epoch value with 1000 to use it as long value . Like below :-

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddhhmmss");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(timeZone));
Long dateLong=Long.parseLong(sdf.format(epoch*1000));