I would recommend date.toDateTimeAtStartOfDay(DateTimeZone.UTC).getMillis();
You might want to adjust the time zone depending on your requirements. Stephen Adam Vartanian wrote: >> I should have specified that the kind of Instant I'm working with is a >> LocalDate. It doesn't have getMillis. > > LocalDate isn't actually an Instant (ie, it doesn't represent a > specific instant in time), it's a representation of an abstract > calendar day with no time or timezone information, so you can't get > the millisecond value for it because it doesn't represent one. > >> Is the best way to get the >> milliseconds to convert that to a DateTime and then call getMillis >> like this? >> >> long millis = birthday.toDateTimeAtCurrentTime().getMillis(); > > Converting it to a DateTime, which does represent a specific instant > in time, via a method like toDateTimeAtCurrentTime() or > toDateTimeAtStartOfDay() is probably what you want to do, yep. > > - Adam > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Joda-interest mailing list > Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Joda-interest mailing list Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest
