How can I convert a date in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format to epoch or unix time?

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EDIT: I have edited my question to include more information, I have tried many ways to do this already, asking a question on StackOverflow is usually my last resort. Any hel

Answer 1

I got the answer after quite a while of trying different ways. The solution was pretty simple - to parse the time to a string as toString() didn't work.

    Date date;
    SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");

    try {
        date = df.parse(String.valueOf(_time.getTime()));
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Failed to parse date: ", e);
    }

    return date.getTime();