From timestamp to Date Android

Question

Good day, I have timestamp 1481709600 and I would like to have this time format Wed, 14 Dec 2016

I'm trying to do that using:

private String getDateFromTimeStamp(Integer dt) {
            Date date = new Date (dt);
            return new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss yyyy ").format(date);
}

but the current output is Sun Jan 18 05:35:09 GMT+02:00 1970

I think the date format is wrong, which one I need to use ?

Thank you!

Update

the problem is that the year day and month is wrong, It should be 14 Dec 2016 instead of Jan 18 1970

Answer 1

Problem is your timeStamp is in seconds , so convert your timeStamp into millisec and then use the date format function ...

try this one ...

JAVA

 private String getDate(long time) {
        Date date = new Date(time*1000L); // *1000 is to convert seconds to milliseconds
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy "); // the format of your date
        sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-4"));
    
        return sdf.format(date);;
    }

Kotlin

fun getDate(time:Long):String {
            var date:Date = Date(time*1000L); // *1000 is to convert seconds to milliseconds
            var sdf:SimpleDateFormat  = SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy "); // the format of your date
            sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-4"));
    
        return sdf.format(date);
    }

Output:- like this

Note:- EEE is represent as Day in Week ,MMM is represent as Month in words and so on ..