How to get current date time in milliseconds in android [duplicate]

Answer 1

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(new Date());
int mSec = calendar.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND);

Answer 2

try this

  Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(); 
  int mseconds = c.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND)

an alternative would be

 Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance();

 long offset = rightNow.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET) +
        rightNow.get(Calendar.DST_OFFSET);
 long sinceMid = (rightNow.getTimeInMils() + offset) %
       (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);

  System.out.println(sinceMid + " milliseconds since midnight");

Answer 3

I think leverage this functionality using Java

long time= System.currentTimeMillis();

this will return current time in milliseconds mode . this will surely work

long time= System.currentTimeMillis();
android.util.Log.i("Time Class ", " Time value in millisecinds "+time);

Here is my logcat using the above function

05-13 14:38:03.149: INFO/Time Class(301): Time value in millisecinds 1368436083157

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EDIT : Time Zone I used to demo the code IST(+05:30) ,So if you check milliseconds that mentioned in log to match with time in log you might get a different value based your system timezone

EDIT: This is easy approach .but if you need time zone or any other details I think this won't be enough Also See this approach using android api support

Answer 4

The problem is that System. currentTimeMillis(); returns the number of milliseconds from 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z, but new Date() gives the current local time. Adding the ZONE_OFFSET and DST_OFFSET from the Calendar class gives you the time in UTC.

Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance();

// offset to add since we're not UTC

long offset = rightNow.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET) +
    rightNow.get(Calendar.DST_OFFSET);

long sinceMidnight = (rightNow.getTimeInMillis() + offset) %
    (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);

System.out.println(sinceMidnight + " milliseconds since midnight");