Parse date from string to get milliseconds

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I'm trying to get the milliseconds from an string that contains a date, but seems that I'm getting the wrong value. This is the string im trying to parse: 2015-03-01 00:00:00, I'm doing this to parse it:

 DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss");
 Date inputDate = dateFormat.parse(data.get(position).getValidTo());
 Log.d("--", inputDate.getDay() + " | " + inputDate.getMonth());

You want `yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss`. And then *don't* use the deprecated methods on `Date`... you're only asking for trouble. — Jon Skeet, Feb 16 '15 at 11:08
Please include log file. And log the content of data.get(position).getValidTo() to check if the string is valid — Marija Milosevic, Feb 16 '15 at 11:08
@MichałSzydłowski when i do `Log.d("--", inputDate.getDay() + " | " + inputDate.getMonth());` I get `4 | 0` — Darko Petkovski, Feb 16 '15 at 11:09
@MichałSzydłowski this is the time i get in milis: `1420066800000` — Darko Petkovski, Feb 16 '15 at 11:20

Swayam · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-16T13:27:11.677

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Use "MM" instead of "mm" to get month. ("mm" stands for minutes)

And inputDate.getTime() will give the time in milliseconds.

edited Feb 16 '15 at 13:27

answered Feb 16 '15 at 11:14

Swayam

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 16 '15 at 11:17

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 DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
 Date inputDate = dateFormat.parse("2014-10-12 12:00:00");
 System.out.println(inputDate.getTime());

answered Feb 16 '15 at 11:17

Sireesh Vattikuti

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 16 '15 at 11:18

If you add dependencies I would use JodaTime to do anything date related.

import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

and use this

String input = "2015-03-01 00:00:00";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
DateTime dt = DateTime.parse(input, formatter);

System.out.println(dt.getDayOfWeek());
System.out.println(dt.getMonthOfYear());

Parse date from string to get milliseconds

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