Convert Long to Date

In this section, you will learn to convert a long into a date format. Java provides some methods and APIs to solved it.

Convert Long to Date

In this section, you will learn to convert a long into a date format. Java provides some methods and APIs to solved it.

Convert  Long  to Date

Convert Long to Date

     

In this section, you will learn to convert a long into a date format. Java provides some methods and APIs to solved it. 

Description of program:

This example helps you in converting a  long value into a Date. The getDateInstance() method is a time formatter with the given formatting style for the default locale. And the getTimeInstance(int style) method is used to get the time formatter with the given formatting style for the default locale. Here style gives the formatting style.

Some other styles are:

  1. FULL
  2. LONG
  3. MEDIUM
  4. SHORT
  5. DEFAULT

[Note: Its value is MEDIUM.]

 

Here is the code of program:

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
public class LongToDate {
 public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception {
  Date date = new Date();
  DateFormat dataformat =  DateFormat.
getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG);
 
  String s4 = dataformat.format(date);
 System.out.println(dataformat.format(date));  
  } }  

Output of this program:

C:\date>javac LongToDate.java
C:\date>java LongToDate
June 12, 2007

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