Convert Date to time stamp in java

Question

I am trying to convert the date to timestamp

Thu Jul 04 13:32:51 IST 2013 to timestamp value

java.sql.Timestamp timeStampDate = new
                   Timestamp(user.getCreatedTime().getTime());
           System.out.println("Today is " +timeStampDate);

but it gives the result as 2013-07-04 13:32:51.0 I need only the long value like 1372924971000.

Solution

Call getTime() on your Timestamp object:

Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT represented by this Timestamp object.

In fact you don't have to create a Timestamp first. user.getCreatedTime().getTime() already gives you the long value which you want.

Comments

[William Morrison]

No. He's looking for the elapsed time since the epoch for when the user was created.

[lalitm]

Just to clarify, Date#getTime() returns this Date as a millisecond value. The value is the number of milliseconds since Jan. 1, 1970, midnight GMT.