Converting Epoch to string Date

[amyedwards]

Hello all:

I'm new here and though I'm not "new" to Java per se, I don't use it on a daily basis and I find that I need a little help with a conversion.

I have an attribute on an object (LAST_MODIFIED) whose value is a date in epoch format (e.g., 1197560243, which is Dec 13, 2007). I'm doing a little conversion based on some posts I read here, to get it into a readable format. That code looks like this:

private String convertDate( Long str )
{
Date epoch = new Date(str);
DateFormat df2 = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM);
String s2 = df2.format(epoch);

return s2;

}

The value of the converted date, however, always ends up being "Jan 14, 1970", which (obviously) isn't correct. Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong? Any assistance is greatly appreciated!!

Kind regards,
Amy. (who is exceedingly frustrated)

[rajiv_bang]

The Date constructor accepts milliseconds. I have not made any changes to your method except for passing the input in milliseconds.

Can you try this out?

Code:

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.*;
public class ConvertDate
{
public static void main(String args[])
 {
	ConvertDate f = new ConvertDate();

	Long str = new Long(1197560243000L);
	
	System.out.println(f.convertDate(str));
 }

private String convertDate( Long str )
{
Date epoch = new Date(str);
DateFormat df2 = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM);
String s2 = df2.format(epoch);

return s2;

}
}

[amyedwards]

Thank you, Rajiv. I have tried adding the code that you suggested but the behavior is the same. I suspect that I'm adding it incorrectly. Should I create a separate class file for the new class you created or just include it as a subclass of mine?
Thanks again.

[amyedwards]

Rajiv:
I figured out what I was doing wrong and my conversion works now. Thank you SOOO much!!
Amy.