Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Copyright 2010 TYTung. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of * the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under * the License. */ import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Locale; import java.util.TimeZone; public class Main { /** "Fri Oct 09 08:37:22 CST 2009" // TimeZone is Taipei, zzz=[GMT+0800 in Android | CST in Java] */ private static SimpleDateFormat LocalTimeFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", Locale.US); public static long getLocalTime(String strLocalTime) { long millisecond = 0; try { LocalTimeFormatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault()); millisecond = LocalTimeFormatter.parse(strLocalTime).getTime(); } catch (ParseException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return millisecond; } }