Question

I have a timedate string in a round-trip data pattern like this: 2012-07-05T11:30:44.1533815Z. This comes from some .NET service.

How do I convert it to a long in Java?

I’ve tried SimpleDateTimeFormat seems I can’t figure out the correct format specifiers..

Answer 1

Try this:

public long getTime(String time) throws ParseException {
  SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSSSSS'Z'");
  Date date = df.parse(time);

  return date.getTime();
}

cheers