I noticed that the ms from System.currentMillis has 3 extra digits, ie
1520835640781 from system.currentimemillis
1520764777 from api im using
so I assume I just need to add some value to the one that is giving me
errors? Think ive done this before but i cannot recall what I need to add.
On Monday, March 12, 2018 at 2:18:07 PM UTC+8, Gareth Murfin wrote:
>
> 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("-MM-dd hh:mm:ss a", d);
>df.applyPattern("-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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