I develop a SonarQube plugin and for one of my needs I need to store the analysis date of a project as an SQL TIMESTAMP
( Please note: a TIMESTAMP
, and not a TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE
).
Here is how I currently do it:
// In the SonarQube Sensor
// .getAnalysisDate() returns a java.util.Date
final Instant instant = module.getAnalysisDate().toInstant();
// Timestamp at UTC from the Instant
final LocalDateTime dt = LocalDateTime.frominstant(instant, ZoneOffset.UTC);
final Timestampt ts = Timestamp.valueOf(dt);
I have a little trouble grasping the concept of an Instant, there is also ZonedDateTime etc...
Anyway, this seems to do what I want, but is it the correct way?
To store a UTC TIMESTAMP
in your DB, you need to create a Java Timestamp
that represents the date of your report (say 8th November 7pm UTC), but in the local time zone without conversion (say 8th November 7pm CET). So your approach is correct: get the LocalDateTime
of the analysis date in UTC (8th November 7pm) and create a Timestamp in your local time zone at that LocalDateTime
.
I don't think there is a shorter/better way to do it. If you used a sql TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
field you would not have to do any manipulations and Date.from(Instant)
would produce the correct result.
Clarification of the concepts involved, using the time at which you posted your question as an example (Sunday 8th November 2015 at 7pm UTC) and assuming your local time zone is CET (Central European Time = UTC+1):
Timestamp
will be the number of milliseconds since the epoch, ie it represents the unique instant on the time line at which you posted your question and does not have any time zone information Timestamp
into a TIMESTAMP
(ie without time zone) field, the jdbc driver will calculate the date/time corresponding to your Timestamp
in the default time zone (unless a Calendar
is explicitly provided) - so your DB will show Sunday 8th November at 8pm java.time.Instant
is similar to a Java Timestamp
: it represents a unique point in time, without time zone information LocalDateTime
is like a sql TIMESTAMP
, it says, for example, Sunday 8th November 8pm, but you don't know what point in time that is without additional time zone information ZonedDateTime
is essentially a LocalDateTime
+ a time zone. For example Sunday 8th November 8pm [Europe/Paris] - that generally identifies a unique instant but not necessarily (think of when clocks change backward for DST and the same hour is repeated twice). OffsetDateTime
is essentially a LocalDateTime
+ an offset vs. UTC. For example Sunday 8th November 8pm +01:00. That identifies a unique instant in time. The standard approach is generally to store an instant as a sql TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
and use either a Timestamp
or an OffsetDateTime
on the Java side of things.
Timestamp.from(instant)
is all you should need.
Neither java.sql.Timestamp
nor java.time.Instant
have a timezone so you don't need to convert to UTC.
Alternatively directly from java.util.Date
long millisSinceEpoch = module.getAnalysisDate().getTime();
Timestamp timestamp = new Timestamp(time);
If performance matters, I would use the following:
final long timeAtLocal = module.getAnalysisDate(); // or System.currentTimeMillis(); or new Date().getTime(); etc.
final long offset = TimeZone.getDefault().getOffset(timeAtLocal);
final Timestamp timeAtUTC = new Timestamp(timeAtLocal - offset);
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