How to insert current time in MySQL using Java

Question

I need to insert the current date and time (milliseconds) into MySQL. I did the following:

long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
java.sql.Timestamp timestamp = new java.sql.Timestamp(time);
System.out.println("Time in milliseconds :" + timestamp);

And I got the time in milliseconds correctly (e.g. 2013-03-21 00:08:33.523). However, I need to insert this information into MySQL database. I tried the following using PreparedStatement

prepStmt.setTimestamp(2,timestamp);

But the time is inserted without milliseconds (e.g. 2013-03-21 00:08:33).

How can I insert the time with milliseconds.

EDIT: The column in the database is of DATETIME type.

Answer 1

java.util.Date date = new java.util.Date();
java.sql.Timestamp timestamp = new java.sql.Timestamp(date.getTime());
preparedStatement.setTimestamp(1, timestamp);

Answer 2

It the column is of type DATETIME use the setDate method of PreparedStatement.

java.sql.Date date = new java.sql.Date(System.currentTimeMillis());
stmnt.setDate(1, date);

Answer 3

You can create a method getCurrentTimeStamp() and call it from JDBC statement

preparedStatement.setTimestamp(4,getCurrentTimeStamp());

Method:

private static java.sql.Timestamp getCurrentTimeStamp() {
 
    java.util.Date today = new java.util.Date();
    return new java.sql.Timestamp(today.getTime());
 
}