Get System time in Milliseconds in android

Question

Want to get time in milliseconds in android Ex 19:57:21:522.How do i do this?Could not find any straight forward API's to do so.

Check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16516888/how-to-get-current-date-time-in-milliseconds-in-android — Amit, Sep 17 '13 at 08:00
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8826270/how-to-convert-hhmmss-sss-to-milliseconds — Shakeeb Ayaz, Sep 17 '13 at 08:06
possible duplicate of [Android get current time and date](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5369682/android-get-current-time-and-date) — Dennis Meng, Dec 07 '13 at 21:00

Scary Wombat · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-17T08:14:11.350

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Try SimpleDateFormat

Use a pattern with a capital S

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
String currentDateandTime = sdf.format(new Date());

edited Sep 17 '13 at 08:14

answered Sep 17 '13 at 08:00

Scary Wombat

I suggest using Java doc from Java 6 or 7. – Peter Lawrey Sep 17 '13 at 08:13
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SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS", Locale.US); specifies the Locale – VMMF May 05 '17 at 16:03

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