Convert Date to Long
In this section you will learn to convert the
date into a long format. The java.util package provides the functionality to
convert a date type into a long type.
Description of program:
The following program helps you in converting a date into a long type. First of all you need a date that
needs to be converted.
The DateFormat is a constructor to create a new date format.
The getTime() method is used to convert the given date into a long
type. This method returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT represented by this Date
object. which is of long type.
Here is the code of program:
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
public class DateToLong {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
String str_date="11-June-07";
DateFormat formatter ;
Date date ;
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
date = (Date)formatter.parse(str_date);
long longDate=date.getTime();
System.out.println("Today is " +longDate );
}
catch (ParseException e){
System.out.println("Exception :"+e);
}
}
}
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Output of this program:
C:\date>javac DateToLong.java
C:\date>java DateToLong
Today is 1181500200000
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