Java Long Number to Date formatDate(final long date)

Description

Formats a timestamp representing the seconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT into a string.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
date	to convert

Return

formatted string

Declaration

public static String formatDate(final long date) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*  w w w  .ja v  a2 s. c  om*/
 * Copyright 2010 Lars Francke
 *
 * 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.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    private static final ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat> DATE_FORMAT = new ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat>() {
        private final TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");

        @Override
        protected SimpleDateFormat initialValue() {
            SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
            fmt.setTimeZone(timeZone);
            return fmt;
        }
    };

    /**
     * Formats a Java Date object into a string of the format <i>yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ</i>.
     *
     * @param date to convert
     *
     * @return formatted string
     */
    public static String formatDate(final Date date) {
        return DATE_FORMAT.get().format(date);
    }

    /**
     * Formats a timestamp representing the <i>seconds</i> since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT into a string.
     *
     * @param date to convert
     *
     * @return formatted string
     */
    public static String formatDate(final long date) {
        return formatDate(new Date(date * 1000));
    }
}

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8. formatDate(final long timestamp)
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