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Asked: 2026-06-14T05:11:45+00:00

NSDate timestamp looks like 2012-12-11 18:30:41 – 400. The java timestamp is just a

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“NSDate timestamp” looks like “2012-12-11 18:30:41 – 400”. The java timestamp is just a long integer (for example:”276712445500″).

So, What is a Java equivalent for nsdate?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It depends what you mean by “looks like”. You can get a string representation of a java.util.Date using a DateFormat (e.g. SimpleDateFormat). You’d want to set the time zone yourself, though.

    I believe that the internal structure of NSDate is basically equivalent to java.util.Date, based on the documentation:

    The sole primitive method of NSDate, timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate, provides the basis for all the other methods in the NSDate interface. This method returns a time value relative to an absolute reference date—the first instant of 1 January 2001, GMT.

    In other words, the value doesn’t “know” its offset from UTC etc… it’s just a point in time. (The epoch and scale may well be different to java.util.Date, but that’s an implementation difference more than a conceptual one.)

    However, despite all of this I would strongly recommend that you use Joda Time for all date/time manipulation in Java. It’s a much nicer API than java.util.Date/Calendar.

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