Question

I have a class file where the date field has value like “1329242400”. This value in UI is represented as “0 day 00:02:56”.
I tried below but I get date in 1970’s.

String attr = "1329242400";
Date cDate = new Date(Long.parseLong(attr));

Output is “Fri Jan 16 04:16:55 EST 1970”

Tried below,

GregorianCalendar c = new GregorianCalendar();
c.setTime(cDate);
XMLGregorianCalendar dDt = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(c);

Output is “1970-01-16T04:16:55.200-05:00”

What other conversion method should I do to get “0 day 00:02:56” or like “Tue Feb 14 00:02:56 EST 2011”?

Answer 1

The constructor expects the time stamp to be in milliseconds, so you’re off by 3 orders of magnitude:

Date cDate = new Date(Long.parseLong(attr) * 1000);
                                           ^^^^^^