Question

I’m trying to convert the following string "2012-04-13 04:08:42.794" to a date type:

    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.SSS");

    Date convertedDate;
    try {
        convertedDate = dateFormat.parse(dateString);
        System.out.println(" in utils: "+convertedDate.toString());
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }


  //----------------- i think this is the problem
java.sql.Date sqlDate = new java.sql.Date(convertedDate.getTime());
        System.out.println("sql: "+sqlDate.toString());
        return sqlDate;

But this is printing the following:

in utils: Fri Apr 13 04:08:42 PDT 2012

How can I get this date to preserve the milliseconds?

Answer 1

The convertedDate object does in fact contain the millisecond information. The issue here is that the toString() method format does not print milliseconds.

Do

 System.out.println(" in utils: " + dateFormat.format(convertedDate));

You can also check if the ms are set with

 System.out.println("millis: " + convertedDate.getTime());