Convert elapsed real time to Date

Question

I'm writing a simple app to monitor sync activities on Android and am stuck with SyncInfo.startTime which returns a value based on SystemClock.elapsedRealTime(). How do I convert this value to a regular Date object?

This link shows a discussion on setting the base time of a `Chronometer` instance, but it doesn't allow me to set a elapsed time and retrieve the real date/time, which is what I want. — Leonardo Pessoa, May 01 '13 at 13:40

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered May 01 '13 at 14:07

Found a solution to the problem:

new Date(System.currentTimeMillis() 
       - SystemClock.elapsedRealtime()
       + elapsedTime);

where elapsedTime is the time I receive from Android. As far as I've tested, this seems to return the correct date/time for an elapsed time. I'm just not very fond of this answer because Google warns not to use System.currentTimeMillis(). Unless someone has a better answer, I'm closing this question as answered.

Convert elapsed real time to Date

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