Android Date Format Conversion from millis to date and time

Question

I am building sunshine app using volley library. I successfully parse data but I am unable to format date. I am getting date from api in millis. I use original code method of sunshine to format date but still getting date as 18 Jan 1970. JSON field dt: 1484856000 I want to convert it in original date and then in string like today, tomorrow.

This looks like second not ms, so multiply by 1000. Then use SimpleDateFormat to format as reuired — Scary Wombat, Jan 20 '17 at 05:24
[Check this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7953725/how-to-convert-milliseconds-to-date-format-in-android) — Bhavin Patel, Jan 20 '17 at 05:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '17 at 05:25

Check http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/DateFormat.html

public String getFormattedDate(Context context, long smsTimeInMilis) {
Calendar smsTime = Calendar.getInstance();
smsTime.setTimeInMillis(smsTimeInMilis);

Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();

final String timeFormatString = "h:mm aa";
final String dateTimeFormatString = "EEEE, MMMM d, h:mm aa";
final long HOURS = 60 * 60 * 60;
if (now.get(Calendar.DATE) == smsTime.get(Calendar.DATE) ) {
    return "Today " + DateFormat.format(timeFormatString, smsTime);
} else if (now.get(Calendar.DATE) - smsTime.get(Calendar.DATE) == 1  ){
    return "Yesterday " + DateFormat.format(timeFormatString, smsTime);
} else if (now.get(Calendar.YEAR) == smsTime.get(Calendar.YEAR)) {
    return DateFormat.format(dateTimeFormatString, smsTime).toString();
} else {
    return DateFormat.format("MMMM dd yyyy, h:mm aa", smsTime).toString();
}

}

Android Date Format Conversion from millis to date and time

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