Question

This is my Below function in which I am passing timestamp, I need only the date in return from the timestamp not the Hours and Second. With the below code I am getting-

private String toDate(long timestamp) {
        Date date = new Date (timestamp * 1000);
        return DateFormat.getInstance().format(date).toString();
}

This is the output I am getting.

11/4/01 11:27 PM

But I need only the date like this

2001-11-04

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Use SimpleDateFormat instead:

private String toDate(long timestamp) {
    Date date = new Date(timestamp * 1000);
    return new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(date);
}

Updated: Java 8 solution:

private String toDate(long timestamp) {
    LocalDate date = Instant.ofEpochMilli(timestamp * 1000).atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toLocalDate();
    return date.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd"));
}