how to get date from milliseconds in android

Question

I have time in milliseconds, now I want to separate time and date from these milliseconds.

how can i do this???

Answer 1

you can use like this

Calendar cl = Calendar.getInstance();
cl.setTimeInMillis(milliseconds);  //here your time in miliseconds
String date = "" + cl.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) + ":" + cl.get(Calendar.MONTH) + ":" + cl.get(Calendar.YEAR);
String time = "" + cl.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY) + ":" + cl.get(Calendar.MINUTE) + ":" + cl.get(Calendar.SECOND);

Answer 2

This function will give you a String date from milliseconds

public static String getFormattedDateFromTimestamp(long timestampInMilliSeconds)
{
    Date date = new Date(); 
    date.setTime(timestampInMilliSeconds);
    String formattedDate=new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy").format(date);
    return formattedDate;

}

Answer 3

Convert the milliseconds to Date instance and pass it to the chosen formatter:

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");

String myDate = dateFormat.format(new Date(dateInMillis)));

Answer 4

Use a Calendar to get the values of different time fields:

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTimeInMillis(timeInMillis);
int dayOfMonth = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
int monthOfYear = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);

Answer 5

You could convert the milliseconds to a date object and then extract date in the format of a time string and another string of just the date

Answer 6

Further to Kiran Kumar Answer

 public static String getFormattedDateFromTimestamp(long timestampInMilliSeconds, String dateStyle){
        Date date = new Date(); 
        date.setTime(timestampInMilliSeconds);
        String formattedDate=new SimpleDateFormat(dateStyle).format(date);
        return formattedDate;
}

Answer 7

java.time and ThreeTenABP

I suggest java.time, the modern Java date and time API, for your date and time work:

    long millisecondsSinceEpoch = 1_567_890_123_456L;

    ZonedDateTime dateTime = Instant.ofEpochMilli(millisecondsSinceEpoch)
            .atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault());
    LocalDate date = dateTime.toLocalDate();
    LocalTime time = dateTime.toLocalTime();

    System.out.println("Date: " + date);
    System.out.println("Time: " + time);

Output in my time zone (Europe/Copenhagen):

Date: 2019-09-07
Time: 23:02:03.456

The date and time classes used in the other answers — Calendar, Date and SimpleDateFormat — are poorly designed and long outdated. This is why I don’t recommend using any of them but prefer java.time.

Question: Doesn’t java.time require Android API level 26?

java.time works nicely on both older and newer Android devices. It just requires at least Java 6.

• In Java 8 and later and on newer Android devices (from API level 26) the modern API comes built-in.
• In non-Android Java 6 and 7 get the ThreeTen Backport, the backport of the modern classes (ThreeTen for JSR 310; see the links at the bottom).
• On (older) Android use the Android edition of ThreeTen Backport. It’s called ThreeTenABP. And make sure you import the date and time classes from org.threeten.bp with subpackages.

Links

• Oracle tutorial: Date Time explaining how to use java.time.
• Java Specification Request (JSR) 310, where java.time was first described.
• ThreeTen Backport project, the backport of java.time to Java 6 and 7 (ThreeTen for JSR-310).
• ThreeTenABP, Android edition of ThreeTen Backport
• Question: How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project, with a very thorough explanation.

Answer 8

You can use the Date format and set your millisecond value as a parameter to this constructor, Follow this code:

SimpleDateFormat SDF= new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); 
String date = SDF.format(new Date(millies)));