how to convert timestamp format to date-format in Java?

Question

How to convert timestamp 1470989229.000014 to date format mm-dd-yyyy in java? I could do it for different timestamp formats but I could not parse this one.

The database used is MySQL so the timestamp probably would be in that format.

Answer 1

first question, what programming language did you used?

in case you're using PHP, you can try date("mm-dd-yyyy", (1470989229.000014)) but if you want the result like 08-12-2016 , you can use date("mdY", (1470989229.000014))

Answer 2

The timestamp you have there is an unix timestamp. It is defined as the seconds since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC .

So your timestamp 1470989229.000014 translates to 12 August 2016 08:07:09 UTC .

Edit:

Here is an example how to convert the timestamp in java.

double timestamp = 1470989229.000014;
Date date = new Date(Math.round(timestamp * 1000));
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(date));

This converts your timestamp to 08-12-2016

Answer 3

In MySQL you can do this using FROM_UNIXTIME followed by DATE_FORMAT function.

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(FROM_UNIXTIME(1470989229.000014),'%m-%d-%Y')

And the output( mm-dd-yyyy ) would look like below:

08-12-2016

Demonstrated Here