Question

I’m getting the date from an sms message in android as a time stamp in seconds or milliseconds from epoch.I need to display it as standard date and time using java.

int date      = (cursor.getColumnIndex(SmsReceiver.DATE));

this returns some number like 1308114404722.

what is the process to use this number and display as current date

Answer 1

int date = ...
Date dateObj = new Date(date);

To format a Date object, use for example SimpleDateFormat:

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
String text = df.format(dateObj);

Also, you should store number-of-milliseconds-since-epoch values in a long, not in an int, because an int is not large enough. (In fact, the number 1308114404722 doesn’t even fit in a 32-bit int).