Java: Date from unix timestamp

Question

I need to convert a unix timestamp to a date object.
I tried this:

java.util.Date time = new java.util.Date(timeStamp);

Timestamp value

Answer 1

If you are converting a timestamp value on a different machine, you should also check the timezone of that machine. For example;

The above decriptions will result different Date values, if you run with EST or UTC timezones.

To set the timezone; aka to UTC, you can simply rewrite;

    TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
    java.util.Date time= new java.util.Date((Long.parseLong(timestamp)*1000));