[codenameone-discussions] Cannot get date from MS

[Gareth Murfin]

I have all sorts of methods ive made over the years for making date 
strings, but they dont seem to work now. Everytime I pass in ms they come 
up with 1970. 

Example:  1520764749 on this website 
(https://www.freeformatter.com/epoch-timestamp-to-date-converter.html) 
shows 3/11/2018, 6:39:37 PM

but if I pass it into any of my methods I always get 18/01/1970. Am I doing 
somethign wrong or has there somehow been a new bug introduced into the 
Data class?

    public static String getDateString(Date d)
    {
        if (d==null)
        {
            _("*warning* date passed in was null, we will assume that this 
is 'now' and make a new one");
            d= new Date();
        }
        //formulate this date objects
        SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat();
        //we want: 2016-11-21T15:47:21+00:00
       // String dateString = df.format("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss a", d);
       df.applyPattern("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss a");//PROBABLY WRONG AFTER CN1 
CONVERSION
        String dateString = df.format( d);
   ///     _("dateString is ->"+dateString);
        return dateString.toString();
    }
      //takes a date object in and returns a string like 19/09/2011
    public static String getDateString_(Date d)
    {
        Calendar calendar = null;
        calendar = Calendar.getInstance();        
        calendar.setTime(d);        
        String day    = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)+"";
        String month  = (calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1)+""; //month starts 
at 0 in java
        if (month.length()==1)
        {
            month="0"+month; // getthe zero before or it looks odd
        }
        String year   = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR)+"";        
        return day+"/"+month+"/"+year;
    }
    
     public static String getDateString__(Date date)
      {        
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.setTime(date);
        int year    = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
        int month   = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
        int day     = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
        
        String writeme = day+"/"+month+"/"+year;
        //old way was this, so we cna test 
        //REMOVE THIS, ONLY PUT IT BACK IN FOR TESTING BACKWARDS
        //OLD WAY NOT IN USE ANYMORE writeme = day+"-"+month+"-"+year;
        
        _("getDateString__ returning "+writeme);
        return writeme;
      }
    
     
        //takes a date object in and returns a string like 19/09/2011
    public static String getDateString___(Date d)
    {
        Calendar calendar = null;
        calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        
        calendar.setTime(d);
        
        String day    = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)+"";
        String month  = (calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1)+""; //month starts 
at 0 in java
        if (month.length()==1)
        {
            month="0"+month; // getthe zero before or it looks odd
        }
        String year   = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR)+"";
        
        return day+"/"+month+"/"+year;
    }

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