Question

In my application the Date Fiend JSON response comes as this type:

 "CreatedOn": "\/Date(1313572467987+0000)\/"

I want to convert this date in the “MM DD YYYY” format. How can I convert this?

Answer 1

That date in your JSON response looks like a standard timestamp (e.g. number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970). If you parse out the timestamp something like:

    String timestamp = jsonValue.split("\\(")[1].split("\\+")[0];
    Date createdOn = new Date(Long.parseLong(timestamp));

Now you can use SimpleDateFormat to format a date string:

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM dd yyyy");
    String formattedDate = sdf.format(createdOn);

This is ignoring the timezone adjustment in that response (the ‘+0000’) you might also want to parse out this value and add/remove the hours from your timestamp value before formatting..