Java Timestamp Now getNowTimeStamp()

Description

get Now Time Stamp

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static long getNowTimeStamp() 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    private static String datePattern = "MM-dd-yyyy";

    public static long getNowTimeStamp() {
        long returnTimeStamp = 0;
        Date aDate = null;// w  ww  .  j  av  a 2s.co m
        try {
            aDate = convertStringToDate("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", getNowDateTime());
        } catch (ParseException pe) {
            aDate = null;
        }
        if (aDate == null) {
            returnTimeStamp = 0;
        } else {
            returnTimeStamp = aDate.getTime();
        }
        return returnTimeStamp;
    }

    /**
     * This method generates a string representation of a date/time
     * in the format you specify on input
     *
     * @param aMask the date pattern the string is in
     * @param strDate a string representation of a date
     * @return a converted Date object
     * @see java.text.SimpleDateFormat
     * @throws ParseException
     */
    public static final Date convertStringToDate(String aMask, String strDate) throws ParseException {
        SimpleDateFormat df = null;
        Date date = null;
        df = new SimpleDateFormat(aMask);

        try {
            date = df.parse(strDate);
        } catch (ParseException pe) {
            return null;
        }

        return (date);
    }

    /**
     * This method converts a String to a date using the datePattern
     * @param strDate the date to convert (in format MM/dd/yyyy)
     * @return a date object
     * @throws ParseException
     */
    public static Date convertStringToDate(String strDate) throws ParseException {
        Date aDate = null;

        try {

            aDate = convertStringToDate(datePattern, strDate);
        } catch (ParseException pe) {
            //log.error("Could not convert '" + strDate
            //          + "' to a date, throwing exception");
            pe.printStackTrace();
            return null;

        }
        return aDate;
    }

    public static final String getNowDateTime(String strScheme) {
        String strReturn = null;
        Date now = new Date();
        try {
            SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(strScheme);
            strReturn = sdf.format(now);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            strReturn = "";
        }
        return strReturn;
    }

    public static final String getNowDateTime() {
        String strReturn = null;
        Date now = new Date();
        try {
            SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
            strReturn = sdf.format(now);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            strReturn = "";
        }
        return strReturn;
    }
}

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4. getCurrentTimeStamp(String format)
5. getCurrentTimestampAsString()
6. getTimeStamp()
7. getTimestamp()
8. getTimestamp()
9. getTimeStamp()